Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

About Mahatma Gandhi:

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father", "papa") in India.
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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle t...

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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

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Learning quotes by Mahatma Gandhi, UberQuotes

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

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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

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Live simply so that others may simply live.

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

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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

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Peace quotes by Mahatma Gandhi, UberQuotes

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

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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

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Peace is its own reward.

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

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Religion quotes by Mahatma Gandhi, UberQuotes

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameMahatma Gandhi
  • Descriptionpre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
  • AliasesBapu; Gandhi; Gandhiji; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; M K Gandhi; Mohandas K. Gandhi; mahatma gandhi; gandhi appupan; Mohandas Gandhi
  • BornOctober 2, 1869
  • DiedJanuary 30, 1948
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer; Political Writer; Journalist; Philosopher; Autobiographer; Essayist; Newspaper Editor; Political Activist
  • AwardsTime Person Of The Year