Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

Priorities lie in your actions

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

You can't hurt me without my permission.

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

It is the law of love that rules mankind.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.

If you'd be loved, be worthy to be love

A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

God is not in strength but in truth.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.

I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.