Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.