Mahatma Gandhi

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

Mahatma Gandhi

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

Mahatma Gandhi

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

Mahatma Gandhi

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

Mahatma Gandhi

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

A reformer cannot afford to have close intimacy with him whom he seeks to reform. True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world.

Mahatma Gandhi

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

Mahatma Gandhi

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

Mahatma Gandhi

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.

Mahatma Gandhi