Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

Love is the subtlest force in the world.

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

Love is no love which asks for a return.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.