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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Where there is love there is life.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Where love is, there God is also.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Peace is its own reward.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.