M.K Gandhi Quotes

It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

What is faith if it is not translated into action?

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.

My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.

The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.

We don't use guns because we don't have guns

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

Well, India is a country of nonsense

Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.