Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

There are as many different religions as there are individuals.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Sanitation is more important than Independence.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.