Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.

Man believes and lives.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.