Famous Quotes

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.
• A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
• A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
• A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
• All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
• An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
• An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
• Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
• Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
• 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.
• Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
• But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
• Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
• Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
• Each one prays to God according to his own light.
• 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 to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
• Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
• Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
• Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
• Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
• God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
• God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
• God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
• I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
• I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.