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Quotes by Gandhi

• "We need to be the change we wish to see in the world."
  
• "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
  
• "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."
  
• "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
  
• "Speak only if it improves upon the silence."
  
• "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."
  
• "A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
  
• "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
  
• "I think it would be a good idea!" (in reply to a reporter's question "What do you think of Western Civilization?")
  
• "Physical training should have as much place on the curriculum as mental training."
  
• "I regard women as an incarnation of tolerance."
  
• "Selfishness is blind."
  
• "Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served."
  
• "Religion in its broadest sense means self-realization or knowledge of self."
  
• "As a man eats so shall he become."
  
• "Hate the sin and not the sinner."
  
• "True beauty consists in purity of heart."
  
• "Service without humility is selfishness and egotism."
  
• "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
  
• "Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice."
  
• "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
  
• "I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed."
  
• "The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy."
  

Quotes about Gandhi

• Winston Churchill: "It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious middle temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the king-emperor. "
  
• Albert Einstein: "I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence for fighting for our cause, but by non-participation of anything you believe is evil."
  
• Albert Einstein: "Generations to come, it may be, will scarcely believe that such a one, as this, ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."
  
• Marian Wright Edelman: "A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you."
  
• Clive Howard: "Gandhi was a pacifist, but we might suspect him to have been something of a "militant pacifist" at heart: he would have used force to prevent those who sought to make war from carrying out their aims."
  
• Girilal Jain, The Hindu Phenomenon (p. 52): "I could find no explanation worthy of the Mahatma for his decision to accept leadership of the khilafat movement. The decision, it seemed to me, revealed the great man's proverbial Achilles' heel."