M.K Gandhi Quotes

It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Let us work together for unity and love.

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

We must become the change we want to see.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.

In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.

Full effort is full victory.

The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough.

Think for tomorrow but act for today.

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

Whatever does not exist in the body can't be found in the universe, and whatever exists in the universe can be found in the body.

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.