Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Buddhism in one long prayer.

What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

Where there is fear there is no religion.

Live simply that others might simply live.

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.