Mahatma Gandhi Quotes And Sayings

A Policy Is A Temporary Creed Liable To Be Changed, But While It Holds Good It Has Got To Be Pursued With Apostolic Zeal.

A Vow Is A Purely Religious Act Which Cannot Be Taken In A Fit Of Passion. It Can Be Taken Only With A Mind Purified And Composed And With God As Witness.

Self-respect Knows No Considerations.

What Is True Of The Individual Will Be Tomorrow True Of The Whole Nation If Individuals Will But Refuse To Lose Heart And Hope.

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.

Truth Stands, Even If There Be No Public Support. It Is Self-sustained.

Anger And Intolerance Are The Enemies Of Correct Understanding.

Nonviolence Is The First Article Of My Faith. It Is Also The Last Article Of My Creed.

I Do All The Evil I Can Before I Learn To Shun It? Is It Not Enough To Know The Evil To Shun It? If Not, We Should Be Sincere Enough To Admit That We Love Evil Too Well To Give It Up.

I Claim To Be A Simple Individual Liable To Err Like Any Other Fellow Mortal. I Own, However, That I Have Humility Enough In Me To Confess My Errors And To Retrace My Steps.

I Am A Humble But Very Earnest Seeker After Truth.

I Am In The World Feeling My Way To Light 'Amid The Encircling Gloom.'

Ours Is One Continued Struggle Against Degradation Sought To Be Inflicted Upon Us By The European, Who Desire To Degrade Us To The Level Of The Raw Kaffir, Whose Occupation Is Hunting And Whose Sole Ambition Is To Collect A Certain Number Of Cattle To Buy A Wife With, And Then Pass His Life In Indolence And Nakedness.

Sense Perceptions Can Be And Often Are False And Deceptive, However Real They May Appear To Us. Where There Is Realization Outside The Senses, It Is Infallible. It Is Proved Not By Extraneous Evidence But In The Transformed Conduct And Character Of Those Who Have Felt The Real Presence Of God Within.

I Think It Is The Height Of Ignorance To Believe That The Sexual Act Is An Independent Function Necessary Like Sleeping Or Eating. Seeing, Therefore, That I Did Not Desire More Children, I Began To Strive After Self-control. There Was Endless Difficulty In The Task.

If I Had No Sense Of Humor, I Would Long Ago Have Committed Suicide.

An Unjust Law Is Itself A Species Of Violence. Arrest For Its Breach Is More So.

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.

It Is Health That Is Real Wealth And Not Pieces Of Gold And Silver.

Religion Is A Matter Of The Heart. No Physical Inconvenience Can Warrant Abandonment Of One's Own Religion.

Purity Of Personal Life Is The One Indispensable Condition For Building Up A Sound Education.

Man Can Never Be A Woman's Equal In The Spirit Of Selfless Service With Which Nature Has Endowed Her.

All The Religions Of The World, While They May Differ In Other Respects, Unitedly Proclaim That Nothing Lives In This World But Truth.

Each One Prays To God According To His Own Light.

Providence Has Its Appointed Hour For Everything. We Cannot Command Results, We Can Only Strive.

There Is An Orderliness In The Universe, There Is An Unalterable Law Governing Everything And Every Being That Exists Or Lives. It Is No Blind Law; For No Blind Law Can Govern The Conduct Of Living Beings.

Man Is Supposed To Be The Maker Of His Destiny. It Is Only Partly True. He Can Make His Destiny, Only In So Far As He Is Allowed By The Great Power.

Strength Does Not Come From Physical Capacity. It Comes From An Indomitable Will.

Unwearied Ceaseless Effort Is The Price That Must Be Paid For Turning Faith Into A Rich Infallible Experience.

Though We May Know Him By A Thousand Names, He Is One And The Same To Us All.

I Am Prepared To Die, But There Is No Cause For Which I Am Prepared To Kill.

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.

Nearly Everything You Do Is Of No Importance, But It Is Important That You Do It.

Is It Not Enough To Know The Evil To Shun It? If Not, We Should Be Sincere Enough To Admit That We Love Evil Too Well To Give It Up.

Culture Of The Mind Must Be Subservient To The Heart.

We Do Not Need To Proselytise Either By Our Speech Or By Our Writing. We Can Only Do So Really With Our Lives. Let Our Lives Be Open Books For All To Study.

The Pursuit Of Truth Does Not Permit Violence On One's Opponent.

Prayer Is Not An Old Woman's Idle Amusement. Properly Understood And Applied, It Is The Most Potent Instrument Of Action.

It May Be Possible To Gild Pure Gold, But Who Can Make His Mother More Beautiful?

Healthy Discontent Is The Prelude To Progress.

Fear Of Death Makes Us Devoid Both Of Valour And Religion. For Want Of Valour Is Want Of Religious Faith.

Freedom Is Never Dear At Any Price. It Is The Breath Of Life. What Would A Man Not Pay For Living?

Moral Authority Is Never Retained By Any Attempt To Hold On To It. It Comes Without Seeking And Is Retained Without Effort.

Only He Can Take Great Resolves Who Has Indomitable Faith In God And Has Fear Of God.

Faith... Must Be Enforced By Reason... When Faith Becomes Blind It Dies.

No Culture Can Live If It Attempts To Be Exclusive.

I Believe That A Man Is The Strongest Soldier For Daring To Die Unarmed.

What Do I Think Of Western Civilization? I Think It Would Be A Very Good Idea.

Non-violence, Which Is The Quality Of The Heart, Cannot Come By An Appeal To The Brain.