“The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.”
Source: Tagore and Gandhi Argue
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works
Source: None High: None Low
“God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
Source: The Good Life
“God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.”
Source: Through Self-control
“God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.”
Source: Collected Works
“God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.”
Source: Gandhigrams
“If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?”
Source: Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“I trust men only because I trust God.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
Source: All Religions are True
“Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Man alone is made in the image of God.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.”
Source: Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma
“Man can only describe God in his own poor language.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
“No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion
Source: India of My Dreams
“The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.”
Source: Young India
“When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.”
Source: Collected Works
“A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.”
Source: Collected Works
“The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.”
Source: Collected Works
“What is impossible with man is child's play with God.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.”
Source: The Epic Fast
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Essential Writings
“Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.”
Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.”
Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections