3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?