Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

See the good in people and help them.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

God has no religion.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.