3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.