Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.