Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale. — 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 speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting… — 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 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