Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

We must be the world we want to create.

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.