Individual Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance… It…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle…

— Mahatma Gandhi

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are as many different religions as there are individuals.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without…

— Mahatma Gandhi