3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.