3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.