“I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Filter quotes by topic
Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Source: Christian Missions, Their Place in India
“A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.”
Source: All Religions are True
Source: India of My Dreams
“We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.”
Source: Collected Works
“Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.”
“Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.”
Source: The Role of Women
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
Source: Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women
Source: India of My Dreams
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
“There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.”
“Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.”
Source: Hind Swaraj
Source: Collected Works
“What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?”
Source: Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: India of My Dreams
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
Source: Collected Works
“Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa
Source: Collected Works
“How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.”
“In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.”
Source: Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma
“Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Gospel of Swadeshi, by M.K. Gandhi
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Source: The Good Life
“Man's happiness really lies in contentment.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.”
Source: Christian Missions, Their Place in India
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.”
Source: Collected Works
“Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.”
“No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.”
“I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.”
Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections