Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.

Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

Watches may disagree, but let us not.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

No agreement between the British and Muslims can affect me. An agreement between Hindus and Muslims alone will affect me.

Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

I cannot be subservient anywhere.

I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

Nothing is of a permanent nature.

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.