Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

Faith alone is the sun of life.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

Your life is your message.

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.