Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi

"Truth quenches untruth. Love quenches anger, self suffering quenches violence."

"Hatred ever kills, Love never dies, What is obtained by love is retained for all time, What is obtained by hatred proves a burden, for it increases hatred."

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

"The end of all non violent struggle is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent."

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

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

"A principle is a principle. In no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard."

"Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man."

"Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her."

"I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason, and is in conflict with morality."

"I would prize every invention made for the benefit of all and welcome the machine that lightens the burden of millions of men living in cottages."

"The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs"

"Education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character."

"A reformer cannot afford to wait till others are converted. He must take the lead and venture forth alone, even in the teeth of universal opposition."

"I shall work for an India in which the poorest shall feel that it is their country, in whose making they have an effective voice"

"I look upon the increase of state power with the greatest fear, because while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm by destroying individuality, which lies at the root of all progress"

"The means may be likened to a seed; the end to a tree. There is the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree."

"If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircle us today like the coil of a snake. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake."

"Whatever the race, family life is the first and greatest thing. No state can survive unless the sacred security of its home life is preserved."

"The spirit of Democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires a change of heart."

"Intolerance is form of a violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit."