3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.