Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

Love is the subtlest force in the world.

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

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

Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.

Where love is, there God is also.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.