3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.

That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.