Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

There is no love where there is no will

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

Learn as if you will live forever.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.