Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

It Is possible to live in peace.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

Love is the law of life.

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.