Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

If you want a change in the world, be the change

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.

Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.

One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.

If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.

God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

God is always the upholder of justice.

God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him.