Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

I consider myself a Hindu Christian Moslem Jew Buddhist and Confucian.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.

My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.