3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.

If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day.