Quotes About Mahatma Gandhi

#1. Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.

William Donaldson

#2. Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. - Mahatma Gandhi

Philip Yancey

#3. I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

Shahrukh Khan

#4. To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually Sarvodaya or the rise of all. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.

Sonia Gandhi

#5. I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

Raj Thackeray

#6. Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. - MAHATMA GANDHI

Pema Chodron

#7. It is better to light a candle than complain about the dark'
Ancient Spiritual wisdom now attributed to Mahatma Gandhi but I have read it elsewhere.

Unknown

#8. In the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: have a sense of humor.

Drew Chadwick

#9. I should like to slip out of the public gaze...to bury myself in the farm and devote my attention to farming and educating." Mahatma Gandhi

Joseph Lelyveld

#10. A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

Marian Wright Edelman

#11. Mahatma Gandhi noted: Be the change that you wish to see most in your world.

Robin S. Sharma

#12. Rabindranath Tagore put it gently to a Western audience in New York in 1930: 'A great portion of the world suffers from your civilisation.' Mahatma Gandhi was blunter: asked what he thought of Western civilization, he replied, 'It would be a good idea'. 'The

Shashi Tharoor

#13. Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.

Jerry Izenberg

#14. Mahatma Gandhi never compromised on cleanliness. He gave us freedom. We should give him a clean India.

Narendra Modi

#15. Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

Haile Selassie

#16. Even under Apple founder Steve Jobs, the company did emphasize values. Remember the Think Different ad campaign that used pictures of the Dalai Lama, Amelia Earhart, Mahatma Gandhi? But Jobs focused on the integrity of Apple's products.

Laura Sydell

#17. Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

John Lennon

#18. Being hurt is a pesky part of being human. You are bound to meet people who will hurt you again and again. Instead of asking them why again and again, ask yourself why you let them again and again. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Nobody can hurt you without your permission."

Rita Zahara

#19. In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.

Millicent Fenwick

#20. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis ... No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

Hillary Clinton

#21. I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#22. There is no one to talk to since Mahatma Gandhi died.

Vladimir Putin

#23. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals. - MAHATMA GANDHI

Jay Kopelman

#24. I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.

Kailash Satyarthi

#25. The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. -Mahatma Gandhi

Kenneth Eade

#26. Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

Albert Einstein

#27. Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#28. The capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning - Mahatma Gandhi

Jay Crownover

#29. I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

Ho Chi Minh

#30. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.

Kevin Martin

#31. in the sentiment of Mahatma Gandhi, when we practice the law of an eye for an eye, we all end up blind.

Desmond Tutu

#32. A small portion of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes are enshrined at the Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Temple in Pacific Palisades. They are the only portion of Gandhi's remains that are kept anywhere outside of India.

James Frey

#33. One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

Satish Kumar

#34. On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

Albert Einstein

#35. In this changing, complex and exciting world with exploding expectations, we need to find some common ground. We need people and ideas to turn to bind us, and Mahatma Gandhi with his message of oneness for mankind is one of them.

Hillary Clinton

#36. Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography entitled The Story of My Experiments with Truth.

Robin S. Sharma

#37. And so it's interesting to remember that when Mahatma Gandhi, the father of an earlier freedom movement, came to England and was asked what he thought of English civilization, he replied: 'I think it would be a good idea.

Salman Rushdie

#38. In life, purpose is defined by the thing that makes you angry. Martin Luther was angry; Mandela was angry; Mahatma Gandhi was angry; Mother Teresa was angry. If you are not angry, you do not have a ministry yet.

Myles Munroe

#39. When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

Richard Attenborough

#40. On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, I salute every individual who honors the core values of his legacy, making him proud of humanity.

Widad Akreyi

#41. To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Mahatma Gandhi

#42. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#43. Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Mahatma Gandhi

#44. There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Mahatma Gandhi

#45. When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

Mahatma Gandhi

#46. The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#47. If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. Adversity is the mother of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

#49. Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.

Mahatma Gandhi

#50. A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

Mahatma Gandhi

#51. Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.

Mahatma Gandhi

#52. There is no love where there is no will

Mahatma Gandhi

#53. The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

Mahatma Gandhi

#54. An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice.

Natalya Vorobyova

#55. What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

Mahatma Gandhi

#56. That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

Mahatma Gandhi

#57. Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Mahatma Gandhi

#58. Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

Mahatma Gandhi

#59. The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

Mahatma Gandhi

#60. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realised that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder.

Mahatma Gandhi

#61. The future depends on what you do today.

Mahatma Gandhi

#62. No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

Mahatma Gandhi

#63. The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

Mahatma Gandhi

#64. Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

#65. A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

#66. Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

Mahatma Gandhi

#67. I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#68. Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

#69. My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

Mahatma Gandhi

#70. My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

Mahatma Gandhi

#71. The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.

Mahatma Gandhi

#72. A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

Mahatma Gandhi

#73. One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.

Mahatma Gandhi

#74. Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

Mahatma Gandhi

#75. What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.

Mahatma Gandhi

#76. The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

Mahatma Gandhi

#77. It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

Mahatma Gandhi

#78. Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

#79. If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

Mahatma Gandhi

#80. I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

Mahatma Gandhi

#81. Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

Mahatma Gandhi

#82. Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

Mahatma Gandhi

#83. A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#84. Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

Mahatma Gandhi

#85. Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#86. Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.

Mahatma Gandhi

#87. It was with some difficulty that I got through the multiplication tables. The fact that I recollect nothing more of those days than having learnt, in company with other boys, to call our teacher all kinds of names, would strongly suggest that my intellect must have been sluggish, and my memory raw.

Mahatma Gandhi

#88. Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

#89. When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

Mahatma Gandhi

#90. The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

Mahatma Gandhi

#91. The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#92. For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

Mahatma Gandhi

#93. There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.

Mahatma Gandhi

#94. Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

#95. A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

Mahatma Gandhi

#96. No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

Mahatma Gandhi

#97. India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

Mahatma Gandhi

#98. I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#99. You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Mahatma Gandhi

#100. Literacy in itself is no education.

Mahatma Gandhi