3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.