Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

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.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

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

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

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

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

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

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

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Morality is contraband in war.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

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.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.