In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“hold that believers who have to see the same God in others that they see in themselves, must be able to live… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are:… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior. — 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
Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent. — 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
My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth. — 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 Image
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 Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
