Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

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

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

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.

A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.