I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
