Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

1,646 Sourced Quotes

In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

Mahatma Gandhi
My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

Mahatma Gandhi
True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

Mahatma Gandhi
Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

Mahatma Gandhi
To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

Mahatma Gandhi
My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

Mahatma Gandhi
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.

Mahatma Gandhi
It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

Mahatma Gandhi
Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

Mahatma Gandhi
Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.

Mahatma Gandhi
The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi
The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

Mahatma Gandhi
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

Mahatma Gandhi
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.

Mahatma Gandhi
I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi
I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

Mahatma Gandhi
In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

Mahatma Gandhi
The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

Mahatma Gandhi
That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Mahatma Gandhi
The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.

Mahatma Gandhi
Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

Mahatma Gandhi
It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.

Mahatma Gandhi
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

Mahatma Gandhi
This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

Mahatma Gandhi