Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

~ Mahatma Gandhi

In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. It can be profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning is correct, how many of the journals in the world would stand the test? But who would stop those that are useless? And who should be the judge? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I am & have been for years a confirmed anti-vaccinationist. Anti-vaccination has no backing from the orthodox medical opinion. A medical man who expresses himself against vaccination loses caste. Tremendous pecuniary interests too have grown around vaccination.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I hold that 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 to respect our own, a friendly study of theworld's religions is a sacred duty.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy your watch, I shall have to pay for it; and if I want a gift, I shall have to plead for it; and, according to the means I employ, the watch is stolen property, my own property, or a donation. Thus we see three different results from three different means. Will you still say that the means do not matter?

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is the function of the heart.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The good man is the friend of all living things.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

~ Mahatma Gandhi

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

~ Mahatma Gandhi