M.K Gandhi Quotes

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

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.

All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

Continue to grow and evolve.

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.

There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

Without action, you aren't going anywhere.

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.