Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

Without living Truth, God is nowhere.

Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.

Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.

Truth is what the voice within tells you.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.

If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?

President means chief servant

Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.