Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

Sanitation is more important than Independence.

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.