Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

People cannot hurt you without your permission.

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.

Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.