May Quotes

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.

I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

Watches may disagree, but let us not.

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

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

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

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

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.

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

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

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.

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

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.

Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.