Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
