Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

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.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

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.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

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

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

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

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

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

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.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.