Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.

To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.

The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

Find yourself by losing yourself for others.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

Everyone holds a piece of the truth.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

Love has more force than a besieging army.

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.

Be the change you seek.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.