Famous Quotes

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

• 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.
• I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
• I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
• I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
• I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.
• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
• I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
• If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
• Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
• 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.
• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
• It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
• It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.