3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

For the nonviolent person, the whole world is one family. He will fear none, nor will others fear him.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.