Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.

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.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

Selfishness is blind.

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.

One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians (meaning upper caste Hindu Indians) or colored people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trains.