Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.