Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.