Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

Truth is one, paths are many.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

Watches may disagree, but let us not.

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

My life is my message.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.