M.K Gandhi Quotes

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.

No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.