M.K Gandhi Quotes

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.

Man believes and lives.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.