Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.