Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.

I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.

If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Man alone is made in the image of God.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.

The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.