Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.

Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.

Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.