Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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.

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

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.

For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.

The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

The true battlefield is within.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.