Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.