Mahatma Gandhi on standing against the crowd

It's easy to stand with the crowd; it takes courage to stand alone.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi on good vs. evil

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.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi on living and learning

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi on retribution

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi on gun control

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.

~ Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth (1927)

Gandhi on the long battle to bring about change

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi on the difference between the individual and the state

The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi on sin

Hate the Sin; Love the Sinner.

~ Mahatma Gandhi