There is more to life than increasing its speed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
My life is my message.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Action expresses priorities.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Where there is love there is life.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Self-respect knows no considerations.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
