M.K Gandhi Quotes

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.

Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.

Religion should be dearer than life itself.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

I am a proud staunch Sanatani Hindu.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

The one religion is beyond all speech.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

What we can do, we will try to do.

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources

You got to stop asking your politicians how they are going to do this or that...