M.K Gandhi Quotes

See, there is a tendency to look at India as a country.

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.

I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success.

A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Patience means self-suffering.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Love is the subtlest force in the world.

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.