Mahatma Gandhi

Political Science Indian 1869 – 1948 169 quotes

Leader of Indian independence, philosophy of nonviolence

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Young India 1920

God has no religion.

Harijan 1930

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Young India 1930

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all.

Speech 1924

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

Letter 1915

Let your life be your message.

Interview 1947

The weak never started, work only the strong end, the others give up midway.

Young India 1920

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.

Hind Swaraj 1909

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also meant that all had some error in them.

Autobiography 1926

Man's ultimate destiny is self-realization. Until then, he is merely a blind groper.

Harijan 1930

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Speech 1920

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Young India 1925

A no uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Hind Swaraj 1908

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Speech 1931

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Autobiography 1924

The only devil we have to fear is the one prowling around inside ourselves.

Letter 1940

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Young India 1920

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off by any of them.

Speech 1921

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Harijan 1942

Hey Ram.

Last words 1948