M.K Gandhi Quotes

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.

God cannot be realized through intellect.

Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.