Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Action expresses priorities.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

We may attack systems. We must not attack men.

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Truth is one, paths are many.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

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

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

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.

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

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

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

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.

Temple going is for the purification of the soul.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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

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.

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.