M.K Gandhi Quotes

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.

Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.

She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

There is no path to peace; peace is the path.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence