3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune

If you want to change the world, be that change.

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.