Gandhi, Mahatma
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Gandhi, Mahatma
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Dictators and Dictatorship
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Culture
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Change
If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Christians and Christianity
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Culture
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Change
We must become the change we want to see.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Change
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Coward and Cowardice
The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Control
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Control
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Despair
Cowards can never be moral.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Coward and Cowardice
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Causes
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Idleness
Hatred can be overcome only by love.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Hatred
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Food and Eating
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Law and Lawyers
The mantram becomes one s staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
Gandhi, Mahatma
God
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Freedom
Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Faith
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Friends and Friendship
It is easy enough to be friendly to one s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Friends and Friendship
Non-violence is the article of faith.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Faith
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Faith
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Happiness
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Gandhi, Mahatma
History and Historians
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Freedom
I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Faith
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Forgiveness
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Good and Evil
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Inheritance
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Nonviolence
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Life and Living
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Love
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Leaders and Leadership
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Materialism
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Humor
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Indolence
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Humankind
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Love
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Love
Where there is love there is life.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Love
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Jesus Christ
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Humankind
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Self-respect
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Marriage
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Occupation
Prayer is a confession of one s own unworthiness and weakness.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Prayer
Prayer is not an old woman s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Prayer
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Prayer
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
Gandhi, Mahatma
Profits
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Prayer
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Reason
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Power
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world s problem.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Potential
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Poverty and The Poor
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Prayer
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one s cause.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Tolerance
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Peace
Patience means self-suffering.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Patience
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Policy
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Right and Rightness
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Service
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Technology
Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Unity
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Sacrifice
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Teachers and Teaching
There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Restraint
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Satisfaction
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Responsibility
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Self-confidence
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Quality
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Service
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Service
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Revenge
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Self-control
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Truth
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Truth
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one s opponent.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Truth
Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Soul
There is no god higher than truth.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Truth
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Society
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Truth
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Country
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Action
If you don t ask, you don t get.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Ask
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Action
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Anger
Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Evil
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Conflict
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Adaptability
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Capitalism
A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Candor
It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
Gandhi, Mahatma
War and Peace
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Worry
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Violence
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Vow
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Vow
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Will and Will Power
Morality is contraband in war.
Gandhi, Mahatma
War
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Vision
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.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Wisdom
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Vow