M.K Gandhi Quotes

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

People become what they expect themselves to become

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

God never occurs to you in person but always in action.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.

We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.