“I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
Source: Volume of prefaces
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Source: Collected Works
Source: All Religions are True
“A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
Source: The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates Between Gandhi and Tagore, 1915-1941
“Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.”
Source: Collected Works
“What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.”
“If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.”
Source: The Way to Communal Harmony
“Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“That which is inherent in man is his virtue.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Essential Writings
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Source: India of My Dreams
“Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
“If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works
“Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: The Indian States' Problem
“Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
Source: Collected Works
“No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Collected Works
Source: Communal Unity
“A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.”
Source: Collected Works
“There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?”