Top 208 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

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

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

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.