Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

God never occurs to you in person but always in action.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

The one religion is beyond all speech.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior