Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

Concentrate on your task.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.

The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.

When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

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

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

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

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

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.