3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.