3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.