Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

Make injustice visible.

I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.

God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Anything that exists is possible.

India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.

My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.

God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.