Also see Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
I think it would be a good idea.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Each of us must be the change we want to see in the world.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom. But it will be an oceanic circle whose centre will be he individual always ready to perish for the village, the latter ready to perish for the circle of villages, until at last the whole becomes one life composed of individuals... the outermost circumference will not wield power to crush the inner circle but will give strength to all within and derive it's strength from it.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
One cannot unite a community without a newspaper or journal of some kind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world
-- Mahatma Gandhi
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
We must respect other religions even as we respect our own. Mere tolerance thereof is not enough.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Corruption ought not to be an inevitable product of democracy."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Find purpose, the means will follow."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"What difference does it make to the dead... whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Why change the world when we can change ourselves?"
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible. We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Passive resistance is an all-sided sword; it can be used anyhow; it blesses him who uses it and him against whom it is used."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence"
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"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 very being."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Even If I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of the truth.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"The fight of Satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"In the code of the Satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"A Satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He owns no enemy."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
(When beginning a protest against the British rule of India, by breaking a law whereby Indians were not permitted to manufacture salt from seawater. Spoken after picking up a piece of raw salt from the seashore.) "With this salt I am shaking the foundations of the [British] empire."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"This freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion
-- Mahatma Gandhi
When the missionary of another religion goes to them, he goes like a vendor of goods. He has no special spiritual merit that will distinguish him from those to whom he goes. He does however possess material goods which he promises to those who will come to his fold."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world
-- Mahatma Gandhi
I came to the conclusion long ago
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines. To assent to such a doctrine is for me a denial of God."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"We must respect other religions, even as we respect our own. Mere tolerance thereof is not enough. "
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy must in essence, therefore, mean the art and science of mobilising the entire physical, economic and spiritual resources of all the various sections of the people in the service of the common good of all.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
We have believed and we do believe now that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Our language is the reflection of ourselves, and if you tell me that our languages are too poor to express the best thought, then I say that the sooner we are wiped out of existence the better for us. Is there a man who dreams that English can ever become the national language of India? (Cries of 'Never'.) Why this handicap on the nation? Just consider for one moment what an unequal race our lads have to run with every English lad. I had the privilege of a close conversation with some Poona professors. They assured me that every Indian youth, because he reached his knowledge through the English language, lost at least six precious years of life. Multiply that by the number of students turned out by our schools and colleges, and find out for yourselves how many thousand years have been lost to the nation. The charge against us is that we have no initiative. How can we have any if we are to devote the precious years of our life to the mastery of a foreign tongue? ...
-- Mahatma Gandhi
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest form of contraception is development.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
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