The greatness of a nation...

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Where there is love there is life.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

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

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

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

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

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

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

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. The other is mere business.

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

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

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.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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

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

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

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

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

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

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

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Where love is, there God is also.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

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

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

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

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

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

Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi