Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

There's no God higher than truth.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

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.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Morality is contraband in war.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.

If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

If you don't ask, you don't get it

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

I know no diplomacy save that of truth.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.