Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.

Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.