Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

My religion has no geographical limits.

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

God is always the upholder of justice.

Let us work together for unity and love.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.