Mahatma Gandhi
Leader of Indian independence, philosophy of nonviolence
Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
One's own religion is a matter between oneself and God alone.
I am a humble seeker after truth and bent upon finding it. I count no sacrifice too great for the sake of seeing God face to face.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
There is no path to peace, peace is the path.
I am a humble seeker after truth, and I am prepared to follow the truth to the ends of the earth.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within myself.
There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
What is true of the individual is true of the universe.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
I am a humble seeker after truth and bent upon finding it. I count no sacrifice too great for the sake of attaining the goal.
The moment there is a challenge, there is an opportunity to create something new.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of humanity.
The law of love could be best understood and practiced if we regarded ourselves as members of one family.