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Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Restraint never ruins one's health. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It was with some difficulty that I got through the multiplication tables. The fact that I recollect nothing more of those days than having learnt, in company with other boys, to call our teacher all kinds of names, would strongly suggest that my intellect must have been sluggish, and my memory raw. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to do so, after having seen the British Agent in the matter of these regulations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands ... and not my own blood. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the summit of bravery. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting. -- Mahatma Gandhi
India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence). -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have no weapon but nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger ... Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The common factor of all religions is nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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 -- Mahatma Gandhi
The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be -- Mahatma Gandhi
True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I read with interest Max Muller's book, India - What Can It Teach Us? and the translation of the Upanishads published by the Theosophical Society. All this enhanced my regard for Hinduism, and its beauties began to grow upon me. It did not, however, prejudice me against other religions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No one has attained his goal without action. Even men like Janaka attained salvation through action. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live. -- Mahatma Gandhi
God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief. -- Mahatma Gandhi
"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself? -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Gita does not decide for us. But if, whenever faced with a moral problem, you give up attachment to the ego and then decide what you should do, you will come to no harm. This is the substance of the argument which Shri Krishna has expanded into 18 chapters. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Men often become what they believe themselves to be.If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can , then I acquire the ability to do it even If I didn't have it in the beginning. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Live simply so others may simply live -- Mahatma Gandhi
When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy? -- Mahatma Gandhi
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The future depends on what you do today. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There are unjust laws as there are unjust men. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks. -- Mahatma Gandhi
God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed -- Mahatma Gandhi
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No one chains a slave without chaining himself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am & have been for years a confirmed anti-vaccinationist. Anti-vaccination has no backing from the orthodox medical opinion. A medical man who expresses himself against vaccination loses caste. Tremendous pecuniary interests too have grown around vaccination. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time.
Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Buddhism in one long prayer. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results. -- Mahatma Gandhi
An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer -- Mahatma Gandhi
Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals -- Mahatma Gandhi
You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals -- Mahatma Gandhi
Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Third-class passengers are treated like sheep and their comforts are sheep's comforts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Europe I travelled third - and only once first, just to see what it was like - but there I noticed no such difference between the first and the third-classes. In South Africa third-class passengers are mostly Negroes, yet the third-class comforts are better there than here. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The mere fact that this thought has sprung up among different nations and at different times indicates that it is inherent in human nature and contains the truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The manner in which the Gita has solved the problem is to my knowledge unique. The Gita says, 'Do your allotted work but renounce its fruit - be detached and work - have no desire for reward and work. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To know music is to transfer it to life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed ... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. -- Mahatma Gandhi
God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most. -- Mahatma Gandhi
And when the old deception of a supernatural and God-appointed authority had dwindled away these men were only concerned to devise a new one which like its predecessor should make it possible to hold the people in bondage to a limited number of rulers. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The old and simple truth that it is natural for men to help and to love one another, but not to torture and to kill one another, became ever clearer, so that fewer and fewer people were able to believe the sophistries by which the distortion of the truth had been made so plausible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the law of life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person
accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is my firm conviction that man need take no milk at all, beyond the mother's milk that he takes as a baby. His diet should consist of nothing but sunbaked fruits and nuts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future ... without having to wait for others to do so. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A mother explains a point to her children over and over again in different words. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares. -- Mahatma Gandhi
That which is inherent in man is his virtue. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline. -- Mahatma Gandhi
God's word is:
'He who strives never perishes.'
I have implicit faith in that promise.
Though, therefore, from my weakness
I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As the means, so the end. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree. -- Mahatma Gandhi
God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A devotee of Truth may not do anything in deference to convention. He must always hold himself open to correction, and whenever he discovers himself to be wrong he must confess it at all costs and atone for it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Morality is contraband in war. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nobody can hurt me without my permission. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness ... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it
always. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion -- Mahatma Gandhi
No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor, and instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies, and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible. But in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. -- Mahatma Gandhi
People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
How can a person who has awakened to the truth about his body ever die? Such a one attains to immortality. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help. -- Mahatma Gandhi
India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics ... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
With my meagre knowledge of my own religion i do not want to belong to any religious body -- Mahatma Gandhi
It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I had learnt at the outset not to carry on public work with borrowed money. One could rely on people's promises in most matters except in respect of money. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my
mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger. -- Mahatma Gandhi
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You can shake the world in a gentle way. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Where is there a wretch So wicked and loathsome as I? I have forsaken my Maker, So faithless have I been. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is the right designation of God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Be the change you seek. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realised that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have no doubt that the ideal is for public institutions to live, like nature, from day to day. The institution that fails to win public support has no right to exist as such. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If we are unmanly today, we are so, not because we do not know how to strike, but because we fear to die. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When the ego dies, the soul awakes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who train their children to think and talk in English from their infancy betray their children and their country. They -- Mahatma Gandhi
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Service of the poor has been my heart's desire, and it has always thrown me amongst the poor and enabled me to identify myself with them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility. -- Mahatma Gandhi
He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth ... -- Mahatma Gandhi
I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than anything else, and what in my opinion is of immense importance, namely, what we call the renunciation of all opposition by force, which really simply means the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by sophistries. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Civilization is the encouragement of differences. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is choosing to love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do ... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It's not just words. Action expresses priorities. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Great men never look at a person's exterior. They think of his heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher -- Mahatma Gandhi
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? -- Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth resides in every human heart,
and one has to search for it there,
and to be guided by truth as one sees it.
But no one has a right to coerce others
to act according to his own view of truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love ... -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word. -- Mahatma Gandhi
God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Be the change which you want to happen to the world -- Mahatma Gandhi
When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin, love the sinner. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will. -- Mahatma Gandhi
This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True prayer is not a prelude to inaction. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable. -- Mahatma Gandhi