Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love.

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.

It is the law of love that rules mankind.

If you'd be loved, be worthy to be love

Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

Love has more force than a besieging army.