M.K Gandhi Quotes

My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

To see farther, you must climb higher.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

Love is no love which asks for a return.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.