3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.