Quotes By M. K. Gandhi

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Your action expresses your priorities.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

It is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

To give one's heart is to give all.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.