M.K Gandhi Quotes

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

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.

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

There is no god higher than truth.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

Eye for eye and the world will go blind.

I think it would be a good idea.

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.