Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

The power we call God defies description.

You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.

Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.