Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (179 Quotes)

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error

There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Ourlife is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and lifegiving.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

What is a war criminal Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini.... England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red not merely Germany and Japan.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a givenmoment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

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

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

There is no god higher than truth.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

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

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.'

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

I claim to be no more than an average man with less than average abilities. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

The 7 Deadly Sins are Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Business without morality Science without humanity Worship without sacrifice Politics without principle.

Learn as if you would live forever, live as if you would die tomorrow.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.

The best politics is right action.

That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute.

An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind.