M.K Gandhi Quotes

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.

Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.

Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him.

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

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.

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.

The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

Be the change you're trying to create

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

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.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.