3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

Morality is contraband in war.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .