Mahatma Gandhi

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.

Faith is the function of the heart.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

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.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.