Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed ? but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

The only way love punishes in by suffering.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.