Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Faith alone is the sun of life.

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

I once killed a man for snoring too loudly.

When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.

Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

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

Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

God is not in strength but in truth.

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.