M.K Gandhi Quotes

Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.

I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Let's fight against corruption for a better India

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.