Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.