M.K Gandhi Quotes

We may attack systems. We must not attack men.

During Congress rule terrorism was countered effectively and firmly, whereas during the BJP regime terrorists were treated like guests and released in their own country.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.

Truth is one, paths are many.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

Temple going is for the purification of the soul.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Congress is responsible for every major change in India

It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.

Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

Poverty is just a state of mind.

Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.