3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is what the voice within tells you.

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

God is always the upholder of justice.

Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.

So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.