Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.

I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

God alone knows absolute Truth.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

God's time never stops.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.

In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

Character alone will have real effect on the masses.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health.

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

We have to be the change we want in the world.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

Never make a promise in haste.