M.K Gandhi Quotes

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

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

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.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

Faith is a function of the heart.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

Peace is its own reward.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Change yourself - you are in control.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Passion is listening.

Cowards can never be moral.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

(When asked about the free distribution of Akash tablet his party had promised) "Frankly, I am not the person who came up with the Aakash tablet. You need to ask the gentleman who came up with it.

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Make injustice visible.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.