Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.

Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Labour is priceless, not gold.

If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.