M.K Gandhi Quotes

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

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.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

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

The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.

Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.

The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.

Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

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.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

Life is greater than all art.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

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.

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.

Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

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.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

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.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.