M.K Gandhi Quotes

Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.

I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.

Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

Your life is your message.

There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.