There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
The future depends on what we do in the present.
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.
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one’s faith in man and God, even one’s own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
N.B.: The British disarmed the Indian Army: Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.
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.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Where there is love there is life.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence….I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness adorns a soldier…But abstinence is forgiveness only when there is the power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature…. But I do not believe India to be helpless….I do not believe myself to be a helpless creature….Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
When asked what he thought of Western civilization: “I think it would be a good idea.”
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
Live simply that others may simply live.
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
If you don’t find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
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