Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

God is Truth, Truth is God.

It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.

Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.

Be the change that you want to see

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.

Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever.

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.

To give one's heart is to give all.

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.

What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.