Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

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

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

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

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

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

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

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

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

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

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

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

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Where love is, there God is also.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.