Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians (meaning upper caste Hindu Indians) or colored people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trains.

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

The end is inherent in the means.

God is not in strength but in truth.

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

You can't hurt me without my permission.

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.