3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.