Explore Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

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

It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

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.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

President means chief servant

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Full effort is full victory.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.

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.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

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.

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.