Mohandas Gandhi quote: "What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can ...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become ex...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and th...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump ...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency ...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

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

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse t...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Each one prays to God according to his own light.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and ...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

What lies ahead of you and what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasu...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking e...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may. We are never able to know ourselves ful...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Where love is, there God is also.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

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

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy i...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

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

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one t...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically inexpedient, and have therefor...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance be...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old pe...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I should be my own follower. I kno...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their on...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Self-respect knows no considerations.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

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

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is n...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes ...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and t...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of th...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is ...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any com...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would m...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It i...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Human kind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence. Hatred can be overcome only by love....
MOHANDAS GANDHI

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every ...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no no...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Let us become the change we seek in this world.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There ...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
MOHANDAS GANDHI

I saw that nations like individuals could only be made through the agony of the Cross and in no othe...
MOHANDAS GANDHI

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win.
GANDHI

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to w...
GANDHI

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
GANDHI

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the adva...
GANDHI

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviole...
GANDHI

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love yo...
GANDHI

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
GANDHI

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
GANDHI

Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was aliv...
GANDHI

The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi.
GANDHI

Don't let anybody walk trough your mind with dirty feet.
GANDHI

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
GANDHI

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
GANDHI

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
GANDHI

We must become the change we want to see.
GANDHI

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, t...
GANDHI

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Moralit...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
MAHATMA GANDHI

I'm certainly not a workaholic.
INDIRA GANDHI

I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
INDIRA GANDHI

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. Th...
RAHUL GANDHI

I am frequently attacked.
INDIRA GANDHI

If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.
INDIRA GANDHI

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us agains...
INDIRA GANDHI

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my f...
INDIRA GANDHI

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
INDIRA GANDHI

My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any othe...
INDIRA GANDHI

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the ...
INDIRA GANDHI

I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's ...
INDIRA GANDHI

I don't think my father was my mentor.
INDIRA GANDHI

The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
INDIRA GANDHI

I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had t...
INDIRA GANDHI

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
INDIRA GANDHI

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of th...
MAHATMA GANDHI

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There i...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Where love is, there God is also.
MAHATMA GANDHI

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

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and ...
MAHATMA GANDHI

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

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God&...
MAHATMA GANDHI

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
MAHATMA GANDHI

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the ba...
MAHATMA GANDHI

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
MAHATMA GANDHI

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Peace is its own reward.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
MAHATMA GANDHI

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse t...
MAHATMA GANDHI

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of th...
MAHATMA GANDHI

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Action expresses priorities.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
MAHATMA GANDHI

My life is my message.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Self-respect knows no considerations.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
MAHATMA GANDHI

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes al...
MAHATMA GANDHI

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, th...
MAHATMA GANDHI

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree...
RAJIV GANDHI

India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
RAHUL GANDHI

Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.
RAHUL GANDHI

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.
RAHUL GANDHI

There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a ...
RAHUL GANDHI

For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the...
RAHUL GANDHI

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown...
RAHUL GANDHI

It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
RAHUL GANDHI

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them...
RAHUL GANDHI

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
RAHUL GANDHI

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in India...
RAHUL GANDHI

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about ...
RAHUL GANDHI

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to th...
MAHATMA GANDHI

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

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
MAHATMA GANDHI

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function nece...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, w...
MAHATMA GANDHI

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no no...
MAHATMA GANDHI

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
MAHATMA GANDHI

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
MAHATMA GANDHI

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a who...
MAHATMA GANDHI

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
MAHATMA GANDHI

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
VIRCHAND GANDHI

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a wh...
MAHATMA GANDHI

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
INDIRA GANDHI

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy ab...
INDIRA GANDHI

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
INDIRA GANDHI

This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explo...
INDIRA GANDHI

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from...
INDIRA GANDHI

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
INDIRA GANDHI

There is not love where there is no will.
INDIRA GANDHI

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can bo...
INDIRA GANDHI

I was reading.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have ...
MAHATMA GANDHI

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their ...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Nothing is impossible for pure love.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small s...
INDIRA GANDHI

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
MAHATMA GANDHI

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by plac...
MAHATMA GANDHI

One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the stricte...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serv...
MAHATMA GANDHI

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be red...
MAHATMA GANDHI

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war i...
MAHATMA GANDHI

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

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, b...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
MAHATMA GANDHI

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
MAHATMA GANDHI

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest mig...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
MAHATMA GANDHI

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shal...
MAHATMA GANDHI

God has no religion.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is be...
MAHATMA GANDHI

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
MAHATMA GANDHI

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
MAHATMA GANDHI

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as yo...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
MAHATMA GANDHI

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It m...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
MAHATMA GANDHI

The future depends on what you do today.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
MAHATMA GANDHI

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent ...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, someth...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
MAHATMA GANDHI

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat co...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a c...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
MAHATMA GANDHI

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no result...
MAHATMA GANDHI

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

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