Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.

Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love.

Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.