M.K Gandhi Quotes

It is the law of love that rules mankind.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.

If you'd be loved, be worthy to be love

A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

God is not in strength but in truth.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.

I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.