Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Peace is its own reward.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

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.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.