Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Well, India is a country of nonsense

Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

Labour is priceless, not gold.

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

Take care of this moment.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

God alone is immortal, imperishable.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

God is not a person. God is an eternal principle.

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.

Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.