Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

Truth is the right designation of God.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

There is no god higher than truth.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.