M.K Gandhi Quotes

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Literacy in itself is no education.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity.

My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.

I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.

Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.