Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

There is no god higher than truth.

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

Eye for eye and the world will go blind.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

I think it would be a good idea.

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever

Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.