Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -

Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

To give one's heart is to give all.

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.

Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

To see farther, you must climb higher.

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.