M.K Gandhi Quotes

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

Labour is priceless, not gold.

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

Take care of this moment.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

God alone is immortal, imperishable.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

God is not a person. God is an eternal principle.

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.

Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.

The Law and the Lawgiver are one.

The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.

The Law which governs all life is God.

I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

Real beauty is my aim.

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.