3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth...

God's word is : He who strives never perishes.