Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

He (the Advocate General) is quite right when he says that as a man of responsibility, a man having received a fair share of education, having had a fair share of experience of this world, I should have known the consequences of every one of my acts… Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. […]

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, you should keep it. If you were to give it up in a mood of self-sacrifice or out of a stern sense of duty, you would continue to want it back, and that unsatisfied want would make trouble for you. Only give up a […]

I think it would be a good idea. (when asked what he thought of Western civilization)

If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

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

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.