3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.