M.K Gandhi Quotes

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

Learn as if you will live forever.

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

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.

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.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

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

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

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

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

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

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

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

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

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

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

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.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.

The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.

The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

Life is one indivisible whole.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.