M.K Gandhi Quotes

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.

The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

Find yourself by losing yourself for others.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

Everyone holds a piece of the truth.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

Love has more force than a besieging army.

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.

Be the change you seek.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.