“Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“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: The Essential Writings
Source: Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives
Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.”
Source: Collected Works
“I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.”
“Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.”
Source: My Picture of Free India
“Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Source: To the Protagonists of Pakistan
“When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.”
Source: Collected Works