Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.