M.K Gandhi Quotes

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

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.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

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.

I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.