Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

I think it would be an excellent idea.

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

Truth is what the voice within tells you.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.

Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

You can only have lasting peace based on justice.

All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.