Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Love is the law of life.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.