Order Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

— 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

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Events that have happened during the past month have confirmed me in the opinion that the Imperial Government have acted in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its…

— Mahatma Gandhi