Body Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

— Mahatma Gandhi

The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even…

— Mahatma Gandhi

To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but…

— Mahatma Gandhi

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our…

— Mahatma Gandhi

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry...

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas…

— Mahatma Gandhi

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live…

— Mahatma Gandhi

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving…

— Mahatma Gandhi