M.K Gandhi Quotes

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

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

As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.

A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do?

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

We must be the world we want to create.

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

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

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.

There is no love where there is no will

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

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

I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

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

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

India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

Learn as if you will live forever.

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

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

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

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

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

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