Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

Art to be art must soothe.

If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.

I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

The best politics is right action.

Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.