Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.

Nothing is of a permanent nature.

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

Earth and heaven are in us

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.

To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.

The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light.

Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.