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Mahatma Gandhi on Ahimsa 9 quotes
“God is truth. The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).”
Mahatma Gandhi on Prayer 7 quotes
“A prayerful heart is the vehicle and service makes the heart prayerful.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Yajna 6 quotes
View all 6 quotes on Yajna →Mahatma Gandhi on Hindu–Islamic relations 6 quotes
“Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Body 6 quotes
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Vegetarianism 5 quotes
“Vegetarianism is one of the priceless gifts of Hinduism.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Hinduism 5 quotes
“Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Religious conversion 5 quotes
“It is no use trying to fight these forces [of materialism] without giving up the idea of conversion, which I assure you is the deadliest poison which ever sapped the fountain of truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Truth 4 quotes
View all 4 quotes on Truth →Mahatma Gandhi on Religiousness 4 quotes
“Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Communalism (South Asia) 4 quotes
“I have nothing of the communalist in me, because my Hinduism is all-inclusive.”
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Mahatma Gandhi on Nonviolence 4 quotes
“The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Partition of India 4 quotes
“If all the Punjabis were to die to the last man without killing, Punjab will be immortal. ... Offer yourselves as non-violent, willing sacrifices.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Antinatalism 4 quotes
“If destruction is violence, creation, too, is violence. Procreation, therefore, involves violence. The creation of what is bound to perish certainly involves violence.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Rama 4 quotes
“To me...Rama, described as the Lord of Sita, son of Dasharatha, is the all-powerful essence whose name, inscribed in the heart, removes all suffering-mental, moral and physical”
Mahatma Gandhi on Proselytism 4 quotes
“Conversion in the sense of self-purification, self-realization, is the crying need of the hour. That, however, is not what is meant by proselytising. To those who would convert India, might it not be said, ‘physician heal thyself’?”
Mahatma Gandhi on Islam 3 quotes
“The very word Islam means peace, which is non-violence.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Vaccine misinformation 3 quotes
“I have no doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process, that it is harmful in the end and that it is little short of taking beef.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Mysore 3 quotes
“Mysore has been rightly considered one of the most progressive of States in India and, in several respects, far in advance of conditions obtaining in British India. There is progress in all directions.”
Mahatma Gandhi on British Raj 3 quotes
“If we are to receive self-government, we shall have to take it. We shall never be granted self-government. Look at the history of the British Empire and the British nation; freedom-loving as it is, it will not be a party to give freedom to a people who will not take it themselves.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Violence 2 quotes
“Victory won by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Punjab 2 quotes
“If all the Punjabis were to die to the last man without killing, Punjab will be immortal. ... Offer yourselves as non-violent, willing sacrifices.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Buddhism and Hinduism 2 quotes
“I do not regard Jainism or Buddhism as separate from Hinduism. Hinduism believes in the oneness not of merely all human life but in the oneness of all that lives.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Education in India 2 quotes
“As Gandhiji pointed out, in a country where the Ramayana is recited by the low-lowliest, in the remotest corners, the incidence and the quality of its education must be very high indeed.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Vande Mataram 2 quotes
“It was an anti-imperialist cry... Vande Mataram had gripped me, and when I first heard it sung, it enthralled me. I associated the purest national spirit with it... Its chosen stanzas are Bengal's gift ... to the whole nation .”
What Mahatma Gandhi Said About Others
Discover personal opinions Mahatma Gandhi shared regarding contemporaries.
Mahatma Gandhi on Gandhi 24 quotes
“I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Sarojini Naidu 5 quotes
“But it is woven into her nature - to laud to the skies the person she admires. But apart from these defects, where would you find a woman like her who has given up her life and soul for India?”
Mahatma Gandhi on Swami Shraddhanand 4 quotes
“[Gandhi] was harsh on the polemical but non-violent Swami Shraddhananda, and kind to the Swami’s murderer, about whom he stated in public: ‘Abdul Rashid is my brother.’”
Mahatma Gandhi on Henry Stephens Salt 2 quotes
“I read Salt's book [A Plea for Vegetarianism] from cover to cover and was very much impressed by it. From the date of reading this book, I may claim to have become a vegetarian by choice.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Amānullāh Khān 2 quotes
“I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan if he waged war against the British Government. That is to say, I would openly tell my countrymen that it would be a crime to help a government which had lost the confidence of the nation to remain in power.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Adolf Hitler 2 quotes
“It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success?”
Mahatma Gandhi on Buddha 2 quotes
“It is my deliberate opinion that the essential part of the teachings of the Buddha now forms an integral part of Hinduism. It is impossible for Hindu India today to retrace her steps and go behind the great reformation that Gautama effected in Hinduism. ... What Hinduism did not assimilate of what passes as Buddhism today was not an essential part of the Buddha's life and his teachings. It is my fixed opinion that the teaching of Buddha found its full fruition in India, and it could not be otherwise, for Gautama was himself a Hindu of Hindus. He was saturated with the best that was in Hinduism, and he gave life to some of the teachings that were buried in the Vedas and which were overgrown with weeds. ... Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Martin Luther King Jr.
Mahatma Gandhi on Jawaharlal Nehru
“Jawahar is the only Englishman in my camp.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Subhas Chandra Bose
Mahatma Gandhi on Benito Mussolini
“Unfortunately, I am no superman like Mussolini.”
Disputed Quotes
Quotes attributed to Mahatma Gandhi that are questionable.
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
“I have never advocated "passive" anything. We must never submit to unjust laws. Never. And our resistance must be active and provocative.”
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. The materialism of affluent Christian countries appears to contradict the claims of Jesus Christ that says it's not possible to worship both Mammon and God at the same time.”
“[asked what he thought of modern civilization] That would be a good idea.
• variant: "I think it would be a good idea" when asked what he thought of Western civilization.”
• variant: "I think it would be a good idea" when asked what he thought of Western civilization.”
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
Misattributed Quotes
Quotes mistakenly credited to Mahatma Gandhi
“Action expresses priorities.”
“There is enough wealth in the world to satisfy everyone's needs, ...'. This quote is actually credited to an American pastor of Swiss origin Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Rearmament movement. Misquotes that Bapu is forced to wear.”
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it—always... When you are in doubt that that is God's way, the way the world is meant to be... think of that.”