1. “Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”
2. "A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."
3. ”An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
4. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
5. "A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
6. "A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."
7. “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
8. ”Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.”
9. “First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.”
10. ”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
11. “Hate the sin and love the sinner.”
12. "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
13. “If only the women of the world would come together they could display such heroic non-violence as to kick away the atom bomb like a mere ball. Women have been so gifted by God. If an ancestral treasure lying buried in a corner of the house unknown to the members of the family were suddenly discovered, what a celebration it would occasion. Similarly, women's marvellous power is lying dormant. If the women of Asia wake up, they will dazzle the world. My experiment in non-violence would be instantly successful if I could secure women's help.”
14. “In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.”
15. “In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
16. “It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”
17. "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."
18. “It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
19. “Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable."
20. “Mahatma Gandhi's Seven Sins:
1. Wealth without work.
2. Pleasure without conscience.
3. Knowledge without character.
4. Commerce without morality.
5. Science without humanity.
6. Worship without sacrifice.
7. Politics without principle.”
21. “No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”
22. ”Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal? In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.
All faiths are a gift of God, but partake of human imperfection as they pass through the medium of humanity. God-given religion is beyond all speech. Imperfect men put it into such language as they can command, and their words are interpreted by other men equally imperfect.
Whose interpretation must be held to be the right one? Every one is right from his own standpoint, but it is not impossible that every one is wrong. Hence the necessity for tolerance, which does not mean indifference towards one's own faith, but a more intelligent and purer love for it.
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south. True knowledge of religion breaksdown the barriers between faith and faith and gives rise to tolerance. Cultivation of tolerance for other faiths will impart to us a truer understanding of our own.
I have said I do not disbelieve in idol-worship. An idol does not excite any feeling of veneration in me. But I think that idol-worship is part of human nature. We hanker after symbolism.
I am both an idolater and an iconoclast in what I conceive to be the true senses of the terms. I value the spirit behind idol worship. It plays a most important part in the uplift of the human race. And I would like to possess the ability to defend with my life the thousands of holy temples which sanctify this land of ours.
I am an iconoclast in the sense that I break down the subtle form of idolatry in the shape of fanaticism that refuses to see any virtue in any other form of worshipping the Deity save one's own. This form of idolatry is more deadly for being more fine and evasive than the tangible and gross form of worship that identifies the Deity with a little bit of a stone or a golden image.
Bitter experience has taught me that all temples are not houses of God. They can be habitations of the devil. These places of worship have no value unless the keeper is a good man of God. Temples, mosques, churches are what man makes them to be.”
23. “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.”
24. "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
25. “The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.”
26. “Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”
27. “Truth never damages a cause that is just.
28. “Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.”
29. “We must become the change we want to see.”
30. "Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."
31. "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
32. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world. "
33. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
