Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Religion should be dearer than life itself.

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.

A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.