Explore Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

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