Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

Idleness is the great plague of India.

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

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.

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

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.

Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.

Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end.

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.