"A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority." (Mahatma Gandhi, "India on Trial" 1922)
"The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary." (Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 1924)
"True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind." (Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 1924)
"Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles." (Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 1930)
"Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused." (Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 1931)
"Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life." (Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 1931)
"Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding." (Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 1931)
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." (Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 1931)
"Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity." (Mahatma Gandhi, "The Gandhi Sutras", 1949)
"Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one." (Mahatma Gandhi, "None High: None Low", 1965)
"Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer." (Mahatma Gandhi, "The Supreme power", 1963)
"Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love..." (Mahatma Gandhi)
"There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything." (Mahatma Gandhi)
"You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves." (Mahatma Gandhi)
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