Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

Both heaven and hell are within us.

There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

If you want to change the world, be that change.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

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 or democracy?

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.