Mohandas Gandhi Quotes

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

By Mohandas Gandhi

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

By Mohandas Gandhi

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

By Mohandas Gandhi

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

By Mohandas Gandhi

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

By Mohandas Gandhi

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

By Mohandas Gandhi

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

By Mohandas Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

By Mohandas Gandhi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

By Mohandas Gandhi

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

By Mohandas Gandhi

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

By Mohandas Gandhi

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

By Mohandas Gandhi

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

By Mohandas Gandhi

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

By Mohandas Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

By Mohandas Gandhi

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

By Mohandas 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.

By Mohandas 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.

By Mohandas Gandhi

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

By Mohandas Gandhi

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

By Mohandas Gandhi

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

By Mohandas Gandhi

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

By Mohandas 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.

By Mohandas Gandhi

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

By Mohandas Gandhi

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

By Mohandas Gandhi

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

By Mohandas Gandhi

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

By Mohandas Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

By Mohandas Gandhi

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

By Mohandas Gandhi

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

By Mohandas Gandhi