Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?

I trust men only because I trust God.

A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.