Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.”
Source: Gita: The Mother
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.”
“Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.”
Source: The Indian States' Problem
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
Source: The Essential Writings
“A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.”
Source: Gandhigrams
“Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“Waiting on God means increasing purity.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
Source: The Way to Communal Harmony
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.”
Source: Young India, 1927-1928
Source: The Essential Writings
“No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.”
Source: India of My Dreams
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
Source: Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women
“Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Source: Collected Works
“Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
“Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.”
“The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.”
Source: The Essential Writings
Source: Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives