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Mahatma Gandhi

1869 - 1948. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Indian leader, pioneer of nonviolence.

1. "You should be the change that you want to see in the world."

categories: Various

2. "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

categories: Human -:- Good and Evil

3. "You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result."

categories: Various

4. "What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?"

categories: God and Religion

5. "Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle."

categories: Egoism

6. "Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all."

categories: Love -:- Truth and Falsity

7. "Truth never damages a cause that is just."

source: "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

categories: Justice -:- Truth and Falsity

8. "To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend."

categories: Forgiveness -:- Anger

9. "There is no way to peace; peace is the way."

categories: Peace and War

10. "There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."

categories: Life and Death -:- Various

11. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

categories: Forgiveness -:- Power and Weakness

12. "The Rich must live more simply so that the Poor may simply live."

categories: Richness and Money

13. "The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children."

categories: Love -:- Youth and Age

14. "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

categories: Nature and Animals

15. "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."

categories: Work and Laziness -:- Question and Problem

16. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

categories: Work and Laziness

17. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

categories: Power and Weakness

18. "Speak only if it improves upon the silence."

categories: Oration and Silence

19. "Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice."

categories: Sin and Conscience

20. "Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness ... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

categories: God and Religion -:- Oration and Silence

21. "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

categories: God and Religion

22. "My life is my message."

categories: Life and Death

23. "My greatest weapon is mute prayer."

categories: God and Religion -:- Oration and Silence -:- Power and Weakness

24. "Morality is contraband in war."

source: "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Peace and War

25. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

categories: Life and Death -:- Education

26. "Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves."

categories: God and Religion -:- Education

27. "Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is a punishment."

categories: Justice -:- Law and Crime -:- Love

28. "Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself."

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Success and Fame

29. "It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine."

categories: Human

30. "In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

categories: Good and Evil

31. "If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be."

categories: God and Religion

32. "I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all."

categories: Human -:- Good and Evil

33. "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

categories: Happiness

34. "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Freedom and Servitude

35. "Find purpose, the means will follow."

categories: Dreams and Desires

36. "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not any man's greed."

categories: Egoism -:- Nature and Animals

37. "Don't let anybody walk trough your mind with dirty feet."

categories: Good and Evil

38. "Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

categories: Various -:- Anger

39. "An unjust law is itself a species of violence."

source: "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

categories: Justice -:- Law and Crime

40. "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Truth and Falsity

41. "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Love

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