Mahatma Gandhi

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my _x000D_ mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.