M.K Gandhi Quotes

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

I'm not ambitious. Not a bit.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

Mahatma Gandhi was always talking of religion...He was convinced that was right...The fact is, we young people didn't agree with him on many things.

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.

I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.

I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.

I don't at all care who's on the right or left or in the center. Even though we use them, even though I use them myself, these expressions have lost all meaning.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.

I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.

Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.

The doctors shrugged their shoulders and grumbled that perhaps if I were to put on weight that would protect me a little - being so thin, I would never succeed in remaining pregnant.

I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.

When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.

I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.

We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.

If you only knew, for instance, how much I enjoy being a grandmother! Do you know I'm twice a grandmother? Rajiv and Sonia have had a boy and a girl.

I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!

If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.