Mahatma Gandhi

“I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'”

“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”

“What barrier is there that love cannot break?”

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”

“Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.”

“God has no religion.”

“But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it created for me, I was bound to help that Government to the extent of my ability when it was engaged in a war, unless I non-co-operated with the Government and renounced to the utmost of my capacity the privileges it offered me.”

“Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”

“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.”

“Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.”

“Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.”

“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”

“I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.”

“A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.”

“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”

“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”

“I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.”

“A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”

“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.”

“That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.”