Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
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Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

The true battlefield is within.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths -- through Hinduism.

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.

The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

The Gita is not for those who have no faith.

There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

Man alone is made in the image of God.

I know that I can never be alone as God is there with me.

Man should earnestly desire the well -- being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

What is faith if it is not translated into action?

They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.

The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.

Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.