M.K Gandhi Quotes

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

Sanitation is more important than Independence.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

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

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

Your action expresses your priorities.

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

If you do nothing there will be no results

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

The soul of India lives in its villages.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

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.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

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.