Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

Be the change we wish to see in the world

Change yourself – you are in control."

Faith is not an understandable thing, but a thing to grow.

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Live simply that others may simply live.

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

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

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.

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.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.