--- title: "8 Cost Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi" description: "8 Cost quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. Plus more from Mahatma Gandhi and more Cost sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc6/mahatma-gandhi-23_bite-me_i-do-not-want-to-live-at-the-cost-of-the_323.jpg" --- > [I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-to-live-at-the-cost-of-the-life-even-of-a-snake-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc6/mahatma-gandhi-23_bite-me_i-do-not-want-to-live-at-the-cost-of-the_323.jpg) > [Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-is-sent-into-the-world-to-perform-his-duty-even-at-the-cost-of/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b6/mahatma-gandhi-23_cost_man-is-sent-into-the-world-to-perform-hi_495313.jpg) > [There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/there-are-times-when-you-have-to-obey-a-call-which-is-the-highest-of/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e05/mahatma-gandhi-23_bitter_there-are-times-when-you-have-to-obey-a_858479.jpg) > [A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/a-democratic-organization-has-to-dare-to-do-the-right-at-all-costs/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1de/mahatma-gandhi-23_cost_a-democratic-organization-has-to-dare-to_2105643.jpg) > [I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-cannot-teach-you-violence-as-i-do-not-myself-believe-in-it-i-can-2/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eae/mahatma-gandhi-23_believe_i-cannot-teach-you-violence-as-i-do-not_2518006.jpg) > [This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/this-campaign-of-non-cooperation-has-no-reference-to-diplomacy-secret/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3b/mahatma-gandhi-23_campaigns_this-campaign-of-non-cooperation-has-no_2958322.jpg) > [I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-shall-never-know-god-if-i-do-not-wrestle-with-and-against-evil-even/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01c/mahatma-gandhi-23_cost_i-shall-never-know-god-if-i-do-not-wrest_3014174.jpg) > [What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/what-has-appealed-to-me-most-in-tolstoy-s-life-is-that-he-practiced/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59e/mahatma-gandhi-23_cost_what-has-appealed-to-me-most-in-tolstoy_3147779.jpg) ## Other authors on Cost ## More by Mahatma Gandhi > [I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-to-live-at-the-cost-of-the-life-even-of-a-snake-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/devotion-required-by-the-gita-is-no-soft-hearted-effusiveness/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/no-nation-being-under-another-nation-can-accept-gifts-and-kick-at-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/so-long-as-we-fear-the-outside-world-we-must-cease-to-think-of-swaraj/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i-want-is-to-remove-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/religions-are-not-for-separating-men-from-one-another-they-are-meant/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-hold-flesh-food-to-be-unsuited-to-our-species-we-err-in-copying-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-was-only-in-south-africa-that-i-got-over-this-shyness-though-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“Where there is life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/where-there-is-life/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-it-was-wrong-to-seek-god-in-a-stone-how-was-it-right-to-seek-him/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-spirit-of-democracy-cannot-be-established-in-the-midst-of/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/champions-are-made-from-something-they-have-deep-inside-of-them-a/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-motto-is-unite-now-today-if-you-can-fight-if-you-must-but-in-every/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-have-no-disciples-being-myself-an-aspirant-after-discipleship-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-becomes-not-the-lord-and-master-of-all-creation-but-he-is-its/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cost/mahatma-gandhi/#itemlist", "name": "8 Cost Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. 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