3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.