Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

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.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

The path is the goal.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

Priorities lie in your actions

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

What we can do, we will try to do.

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

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

Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

Selfless action is a source of strength.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Full effort is full victory.

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.