M.K Gandhi Quotes

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.

Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.

Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.

To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.