Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.

Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

What we can do, we will try to do.

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

Hinduism is not a codified religion.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.

No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.

Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.

Meditation is waiting on God.

Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.