Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

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

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

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

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

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

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.