Mahatma Gandhi quotes on life
Life is one indivisible whole. — Mahatma Gandhi
In the midst of death life persists. — Mahatma Gandhi
Man believes and lives. — Mahatma Gandhi
Religion should be dearer than life itself. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is greater than all art. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is but an endless series of experiments. — Mahatma Gandhi
Let your life be your message. — Mahatma Gandhi
The cow is the purest type of sub–human life. — Mahatma Gandhi
Purity of life is the highest and truest art. — Mahatma Gandhi
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die. — Mahatma Gandhi
If untouchability lives, humanity must die. — Mahatma Gandhi
Faith alone is the sun of life. — Mahatma Gandhi
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible. — Mahatma Gandhi
A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. — Mahatma Gandhi
The Law which governs all life is God. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed. — Mahatma Gandhi
What did Gandhi try to accomplish with his activism?
Initially, Gandhi’s campaigns sought to combat the second-class status Indians received at the hands of the British regime.
Eventually, however, they turned their focus to bucking the British regime altogether, a goal that was attained in the years directly after World War II.
The victory was marred by the fact that sectarian violence within India between Hindus and Muslims necessitated the creation of two independent states—India and Pakistan—as opposed to a single unified India.
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To know music is to transfer it to life. — Mahatma Gandhi
Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial. — Mahatma Gandhi
Let our lives be open books for all to study. — Mahatma Gandhi
The soul of India lives in its villages. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi quotes on love
Where love is, there God is also. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing. — Mahatma Gandhi
Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love transcends all animosity and is never partial. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is impossible for pure love. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love is no love which asks for a return. — Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin, love the sinner. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love and exclusive possession can never go together. — Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is choosing to love. — Mahatma Gandhi
Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love. — Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is love there is life. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours. — Mahatma Gandhi
My religion teaches me to love all equally. — Mahatma Gandhi
The only way love punishes in by suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the law of life. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love has more force than a besieging army. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love never claims, it ever gives. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the subtlest force in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is the law of love that rules mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi
Let us work together for unity and love. — Mahatma Gandhi
What barrier is there that love cannot break? — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi quotes on faith
The Gita is not for those who have no faith. — Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is not an understandable thing, but a thing to grow. — Mahatma Gandhi
Shraddha means self–confidence and self–confidence means faith in God. — Mahatma Gandhi
A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God. — Mahatma Gandhi
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. — Mahatma Gandhi
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness. — Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher. — Mahatma Gandhi
Non–violence is the article of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi
What were Gandhi’s religious beliefs?
Gandhi’s family practiced a kind of Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism, that was inflected through the morally rigorous tenets of Jainism—an Indian faith for which concepts like asceticism and nonviolence are important.
Many of the beliefs that characterized Gandhi’s spiritual outlook later in life may have originated in his upbringing.
However, his understanding of faith was constantly evolving as he encountered new belief systems.
Leo Tolstoy’s analysis of Christian theology, for example, came to bear heavily on Gandhi’s conception of spirituality, as did texts such as the Bible and the Quʾrān, and he first read the Bhagavadgita—a Hindu epic—in its English translation while living in Britain.
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A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God. — Mahatma Gandhi
Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God. — Mahatma Gandhi
This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason. — Mahatma Gandhi
Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith. — Mahatma Gandhi
The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi
A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi
Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause. — Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult. — Mahatma Gandhi
My faith in non–co–operation is as bright as ever. — Mahatma Gandhi
Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason! — Mahatma Gandhi
What is faith if it is not translated into action? — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi quotes on violence
True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mankind has to get out of violence only through non–violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
What other social movements did Gandhi’s activism inspire?
Within India, Gandhi’s philosophy lived on in the messages of reformers such as social activist Vinoba Bhave.
Abroad, activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr.
, borrowed heavily from Gandhi’s practice of nonviolence and civil disobedience to achieve their own social equality aims.
Perhaps most impactful of all, the freedom that Gandhi’s movement won for India sounded a death knell for Britain’s other colonial enterprises in Asia and Africa.
Independence movements swept through them like wildfire, with Gandhi’s influence bolstering existing movements and igniting new ones.
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Violence is the fear to other’s ideals. — Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy and violence can ill go together. — Mahatma Gandhi
Non–violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. — Mahatma Gandhi
Violence is the weapon of weak, non–violence that of the strong. — Mahatma Gandhi
Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty is the worst form of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing enduring can be built on violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is my God. Non–violence is the means of realizing Him. — Mahatma Gandhi
Violence always thrived on counter violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents. — Mahatma Gandhi
Violence begins with the fork. — Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
I first learned the concepts of non–violence in my marriage. — Mahatma Gandhi
An unjust law in itself is an act of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent. — Mahatma Gandhi
What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Non–violence … is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. — Mahatma Gandhi
What was Gandhi’s personal life like?
Gandhi’s father was a local government official working under the suzerainty of the British Raj, and his mother was a religious devotee who—like the rest of the family—practiced in the Vaishnavist tradition of Hinduism.
Gandhi married his wife, Kasturba, when he was 13, and together they had five children.
His family stayed in India while Gandhi went to London in 1888 to study law and to South Africa in 1893 to practice it.
He brought them to South Africa in 1897, where Kasturba would assist him in his activism, which she continued to do after the family moved back to India in 1915.
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That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non–violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form. — Mahatma Gandhi
The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi quotes on heart
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
To a pure heart all hearts are pure. — Mahatma Gandhi
There are no good–byes, where ever you’ll be, you’ll be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
True beauty lies in purity of the heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
By spiritual training I mean education of the heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp. — Mahatma Gandhi
It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God. — Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is the function of the heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men’s hearts. — Mahatma Gandhi
God to be God must rule the heart and transform it. — Mahatma Gandhi
What were contemporary opinions of Gandhi?
As lauded a figure as Gandhi has become, his actions and beliefs didn’t escape the criticism of his contemporaries.
Liberal politicians thought he was proposing too much change too quickly, while young radicals lambasted him for not proposing enough.
Muslim leaders suspected him of lacking evenhandedness when dealing with Muslims and his own Hindu religious community, and Dalits thought him disingenuous in his apparent intention to abolish the caste system.
He cut a controversial figure outside India as well, although for different reasons.
The English—as India’s colonizers—harboured some resentment toward him, as he toppled one of the first dominoes in their global imperial regime.
But the image of Gandhi that has lasted is one that foregrounds his dogged fight against the oppressive forces of racism and colonialism and his commitment to nonviolence.
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Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman? — Mahatma Gandhi
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Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion. — Mahatma Gandhi
When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people. — Mahatma Gandhi
To give one’s heart is to give all. — Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts. — Mahatma Gandhi
I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. — Mahatma Gandhi
Bravery is not man’s monopoly. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi quotes on world
Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others. — Mahatma Gandhi
Be the compromise you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world. — Mahatma Gandhi
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Eye for eye and the world will go blind. — Mahatma Gandhi
What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner. — Mahatma Gandhi
Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you want real peace in the world, start with children. — Mahatma Gandhi
The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time. — Mahatma Gandhi
Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image? — Mahatma Gandhi
In a gentle way, you can shake the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds. — Mahatma Gandhi
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. — Mahatma Gandhi
Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions. — Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you want to change the world, start with yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is of a permanent nature. — Mahatma Gandhi
Untouchability is a terrible reality. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi quotes on nonviolence
Nonviolence is impossible without humility. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all–pervasive. — Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong. — Mahatma Gandhi
Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training. — Mahatma Gandhi
Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war. — Mahatma Gandhi
The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home. — Mahatma Gandhi
I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips. — Mahatma Gandhi
My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances. — Mahatma Gandhi
At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self–acting. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi quotes on religion
My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics. — Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism is not a codified religion. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven. — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization. — Mahatma Gandhi
The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi
My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody. — Mahatma Gandhi
Religion taught us to return good for evil. — Mahatma Gandhi
Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions. — Mahatma Gandhi
Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry. — Mahatma Gandhi
The one religion is beyond all speech. — Mahatma Gandhi
My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself. — Mahatma Gandhi
Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion. — Mahatma Gandhi
The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness. — Mahatma Gandhi
My religion has no geographical limits. — Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned. — Mahatma Gandhi
The common factor of all religions is nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true. — Mahatma Gandhi
My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God. — Mahatma Gandhi
Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion. — Mahatma Gandhi
A friendly study of the world’s religions is a sacred duty. — Mahatma Gandhi
Religions are different roads converging to the same point. — Mahatma Gandhi
There are as many different religions as there are individuals. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi quotes on ahimsa
The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way. — Mahatma Gandhi
For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is a science. The word ‘failure’ has no place in the vocabulary of science. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. — Mahatma Gandhi
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect. — Mahatma Gandhi
Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty. — Mahatma Gandhi
What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence? — Mahatma Gandhi
My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi
When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is one of the world’s great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out. — Mahatma Gandhi
The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill. — Mahatma Gandhi
Cow–protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is the strongest force known. — Mahatma Gandhi
No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi
Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi
