Daily Inspiration Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi frames belief as something heavier than fashion, and he does it with a question that’s already an indictment. The opening image - creeds as “clothes” you can swap on a whim - is deliberately belittling. He’s baiting a modern temptation: treating religion or ideology as personal styling, a convenient accessory for whatever social room you’re trying to enter. By asking it as a rhetorical question, he forces the listener to supply the obvious answer and feel implicated in the shallowness.

The second line stretches time until it becomes moral pressure. “People live for ages and ages” isn’t meant as literal chronology; it’s a way of saying creed is intergenerational ballast. It’s not just what you think, it’s what you endure for, what organizes sacrifice, what explains suffering, what demands discipline. In Gandhi’s political universe, that matters because he’s trying to build a movement where inner conviction and public action are welded together. If beliefs are merely changeable outfits, then nonviolence becomes a tactic. If beliefs are the stuff people “live” for, nonviolence becomes a form of character - and therefore a durable political force.

The subtext carries a warning aimed at both colonizers and the colonized: don’t confuse conversion, assimilation, or ideological rebranding with genuine ethical transformation. Gandhi isn’t defending dogma for its own sake; he’s defending the seriousness of commitment. He’s saying that a society can’t be rebuilt on borrowed costumes. It has to be rebuilt on convictions people will actually pay for.