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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' mere...  
A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but abo...  
A clean confession, combined with a promise never to commit thesin aga...  
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the...  
A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And t...  
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.  
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for ...  
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people...  
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds...  
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings l...  
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not hel...  
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in t...  
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of pass...  
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who r...  
Action expresses priorities.  
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies...  
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimi...  
Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by...  
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and...  
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respect...  
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always ai...  
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will loo...  
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, no...  
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.   Peace
An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we wo...  
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.  
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach i...  
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.  
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallow...  
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change ...  
As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pa...  
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remak...  
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is...  
Be the change that you want to see in the world.  
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts ...  
Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.  
Between husband and wife there should be no secrets from one another. ...  
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different a...  
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.  
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.  
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital...  
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.  
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and le...  
Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service ...  
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to...  
Courage has never been known to be a matter of muscle; it is a matter ...  
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.  
Democracy must in essence, therefore, mean the art and science of mobi...  
Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his rea...  
Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.'  
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must ...  
Each one prays to God according to his own light.  
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often ...  
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.  
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit t...  
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is e...  
Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyo...  
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.  
Evil is, good or truth misplaced.  
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome o...  
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.  
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it die...  
Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual no...  
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.  
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of...  
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, th...  
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.  
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What wou...  
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.  
Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is notworth the ...  
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession...  
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.  
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the mann...  
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if th...  
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.  
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance....  
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so t...  
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man theniron o...  
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in...  
Hatred ever kills, love never dies such is the vast difference between...  
Have I not gazed at the marvellous mystery of the starry vault, hardly...  
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa. He who is angry ...  
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.  
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.  
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an ...  
Human kind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence. Hatred...  
Human society is a ceaseless growth, an unfoldment in terms of spiritu...  
Humility cannot be an observance by itself. For, it does not lend itse...  
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries...  
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to...  
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers...   Equality
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world...  
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarme...  
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically ...  
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertigh...  
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We ar...  
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow ...  
I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not ...  
I claim to be no more than an average person with less than average ab...  
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my ...  
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to ...  
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care o...  
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an e...  
I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Ete...  
I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be often upset ...  
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to con...  
I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve wha...  
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of serv...  
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult ta...  
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are...   Religion
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, ...  
I may live without air and water, but not without Him. You may pluck o...  
I need no inspiration other then Nature's. She has never failed me yet...  
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is o...  
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is ...  
I saw that nations like individuals could only be made through the ago...  
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means get...  
I want to see India free in my life-time. But God may not consider me ...  
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should beco...  
I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seekin...  
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not...  
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under cer...  
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.   Humor
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encirc...  
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And ...  
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on...  
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to...  
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food...  
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.  
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.  
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.  
In nature there is fundamental unity running through all the diversity...  
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words withou...  
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light...  
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not...  
Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the...  
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing some...  
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. ...  
Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practises untrut...  
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but...  
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-su...  
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.  
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth...  
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sin...  
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoure...  
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head th...  
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than t...   Politics
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the...  
It is easy enough to say, 'I do not believe in God.' For God permits a...  
It is foolish to think that by fleeing one can trick the dread god of ...  
It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may. We are ne...  
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.  
It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creat...  
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in propor...  
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rul...  
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quanti...  
It is through truth non-violence that I can have some glimpseof God. T...  
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be r...  
It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in internatio...  
It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time an...  
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, s...  
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a pu...  
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds som...  
Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or...  
Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I sh...  
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no on...  
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live fore...  
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents nev...  
Mahatma Gandhi  
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welf...  
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service wit...  
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinki...  
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hand...  
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.  
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yi...  
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from...  
Manliness consists in making circumstances subserve to ourselves.  
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in...  
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men,...  
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I ca...  
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It ...  
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all mora...  
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not...  
Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enou...  
My life is my message.  
My life is one indivisible whole, and all my activities run intoone an...  
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-v...  
My trust is solely in god. And I trust men only because I trust God. I...  
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the hu...  
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that...  
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.  
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reaso...  
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a lon...  
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.  
Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of thei...  
Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an ab...  
Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It i...  
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with goo...  
Non-violence and cowardice go ill together. I can imagine a fully arme...  
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.  
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat i...  
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat i...  
Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It ...  
Non-violence is the article of faith.  
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is m...  
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in m...  
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an app...  
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Mak...  
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and h...  
Peace is its own reward.  
Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable,...  
Poverty is the worst form of violence.  
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and t...  
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.  
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and a...  
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admissi...  
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.  
Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as a...  
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command re...  
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for buildin...  
Real suffering, bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is th...  
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warra...  
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the true...  
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but...  
Rights accrue automatically to him who duly performs his duties. In fa...  
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is...  
Self-respect knows no considerations.  
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor th...  
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical re...  
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomi...  
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted...  
Suffering has its well-defined limits. Suffering can be both wise and ...  
Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone know...  
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.  
The badge of the violent is his weapon, spear, sword or rifle. God is ...  
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of ot...  
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing wou...  
The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are differe...  
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little di...  
The good man is the friend of all living things.  
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are tre...  
The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest ...  
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the st...  
The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.  
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective ...  
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightl...  
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he ...  
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.  
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.  
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.  
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by ab...  
The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence...  
The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, uncon...  
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong...   Forgiveness
The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about...  
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to the...  
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court o...  
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's g...  
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law g...  
There is more to life than increasing its speed.   Society
There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of G...  
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.  
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any ...  
There should be truth in thought, truth in speech, and truth in action...  
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anyt...  
This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret...  
Those who know how to think need no teachers.  
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know wha...  
Those who will not heed themselves perish. To understand this principl...  
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to ...  
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.  
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinar...  
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the ...  
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a th...  
To me art in order to be truly great must, like the beauty of Nature, ...  
True religion is not a narrow dogma. It is not external observance. It...  
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ...  
Truth never damages a cause that is just.  
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches v...  
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning ...  
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is mome...  
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the...  
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die u...  
We are merely the instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ign...  
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. ...  
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the m...  
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, wo...  
We must become the change we want to see in the world.  
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted th...  
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.  
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeles...  
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very go...  
What is true of the individual will be to-morrow true of the whole nat...  
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most importan...  
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustain...  
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my so...  
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth a...  
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes ...  
Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when ...  
Where love is, there God is also.  
Where there is love there is life.   Love
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. Sh...  
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, ...  
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to ...  
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.   Change
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few dr...