Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.

If you don't ask, you don't get it

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.

The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

Learn as if you will live forever.

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.

Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.

I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

Your future depends on what you do today.

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.

In the midst of death life persists.

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.