Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment.

God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings.

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Literacy in itself is no education.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.