Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.

I think it would be a good idea.

We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.

It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

Life is greater than all art.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.