Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Quotes

• 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.

• The future depends on what we do in the present.

• An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

• It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.

• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

• Peace is its own reward.

• I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

• A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

• An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind.

• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

• That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

• Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

• 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.

• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, <b>always</b>.

• I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

• Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

• My life is my message.