Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The Gita is not for those who have no faith.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

God has no religion.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

Let your life be your message.

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity.

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

The true source of rights is duty.

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.