Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

1,646 Sourced Quotes

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

Mahatma Gandhi
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

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

Mahatma Gandhi
He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

Mahatma Gandhi
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

Mahatma Gandhi
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

Mahatma Gandhi
A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

Mahatma Gandhi
Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

Mahatma Gandhi
It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

Mahatma Gandhi
The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

Mahatma Gandhi
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

Mahatma Gandhi
The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

Mahatma Gandhi
Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.

Mahatma Gandhi
I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Mahatma Gandhi
Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

Mahatma Gandhi
Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.

Mahatma Gandhi
Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

Mahatma Gandhi
Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.

Mahatma Gandhi
Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.

Mahatma Gandhi
I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi
If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

Mahatma Gandhi
According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

Mahatma Gandhi
A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

Mahatma Gandhi