Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

Man believes and lives.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.