Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Be the change you want to see.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

We must be the world we want to create.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide.