M.K Gandhi Quotes

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.