Mahatma Gandhi Quote

Here are some famous quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. These quotes reveal his thinking and are a guiding light and source of inspiration to others.

• I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away.

• Abstinence is forgiveness only when there is power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature.

• Action for one's own self binds, action for the sake of others delivers from bondage.

• What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?

• You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance.

• Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

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

• Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

• True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

• The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

• The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

• Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

• No power on earth can subjugate you when you are armed with the sword of ahimsa. It ennobles both the victor and the vanquished.

• The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.

• The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

• The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

• I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

• God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.