Mahatma Gandhi

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.