M.K Gandhi Quotes

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.

God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

I think it would be an excellent idea.

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

Truth is what the voice within tells you.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.