Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.