M.K Gandhi Quotes

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.

Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.

Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.

I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.

I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

Poverty is the greatest violence.

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.