Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the article of faith.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is its own reward.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

My life is my message.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

~ Mahatma Gandhi