Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.

All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Without action, you aren't going anywhere.

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Faith is the function of the heart.

Violence begins with the fork.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

My religion teaches me to love all equally.