Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Action expresses priorities.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.