M.K Gandhi Quotes

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

The only way love punishes in by suffering.

Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

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

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.

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

Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

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

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever

I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.