Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

Social service that savours of patronage is not service.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

There's no God higher than truth.

Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.