Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.