Mohandas K. Gandhi Quotes

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “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. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “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. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves. ” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Action expresses priorities. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A weak man is just by accident. A strong but nonviolent man is unjust by accident. ” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “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.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Namaste. I honour the place in your where the entire universe resides... a place of light, of love, of truth, of peace, of wisdom. I honour the place in you where when you are in that place and I am in that place there is only one of us.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Self-respect knows no considerations.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. ” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.“

Also quoted as: “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” or “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Truth is my God. Nonviolence is my way of realizing Him.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. ”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I believe in the essential unity of all people and for that matter of all lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stiffled. I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, always.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “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 respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Nonviolence is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”  

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Where there is love there is life.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” 

Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. ”