M.K Gandhi Quotes

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

God alone knows absolute Truth.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

God's time never stops.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.

In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

Character alone will have real effect on the masses.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health.

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

We have to be the change we want in the world.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

Never make a promise in haste.

Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.

Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

Watches may disagree, but let us not.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.