Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

Action expresses priorities.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

Faith is the function of the heart.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

Selfishness is blind.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.

Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.

Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.