Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. It must be an indissoluble tie.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom (England) is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 millions took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.