Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.

Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him.

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

Man believes and lives.

The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.