Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

What is faith if it is not translated into action?

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has.

I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.

The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.

I think it would be an excellent idea.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.