Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.

Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.