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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 16

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It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

Fear, Fearless, Weakness

Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Selected letters”

I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

Consciousness, Conscious, My Own

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.34, A&C Black

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.

Believe, Religion And Politics, Connected

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

Book, Doe, Common

Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.120, Orient Paperbacks

I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

Thinking, Hands, Wife

Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.340, Grove Press

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Sacrifice, Embodiment, Spirit

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Witty, Humorous, Food

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

Snakes, Political, Trying

Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

Age, India, Spinning

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.

Democracy, Born, Democrat

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.25, Rajpal & Sons

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Fighting, Men, Evil

Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.

Support, Community, World

To know music is to transfer it to life.

Life, Music Is, Transfers

Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

Men, Essence, Opinion

Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.195, Penguin Books India

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Birthday, Faith, Religion

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

Balance, Want, Vow

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.57, Courier Corporation

The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.

Self, Way, Gita

Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.18, North Atlantic Books

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

Sacrifice, Liberty, India

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

Life, Men, Cost

Mahatma Gandhi (2000). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

Animal, Humanity, Earth

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Inspirational, Fear, Coward

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.

Heart, Soul, Black

Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

Men, Flesh, Bones

Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Inspirational, Life, Education

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

Government, Voice, People

Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

Born: October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948
Occupation: Civil rights leader

Quotes: 3171

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