M.K Gandhi Quotes

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

No agreement between the British and Muslims can affect me. An agreement between Hindus and Muslims alone will affect me.

Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

I cannot be subservient anywhere.

I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

Nothing is of a permanent nature.

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

Man does not live by destruction.

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.