Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

About Mahatma Gandhi:

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father", "papa") in India.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Mahatma Gandhi

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Mahatma Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Mahatma Gandhi

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Mahatma Gandhi

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Mahatma Gandhi

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Mahatma Gandhi

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Mahatma Gandhi

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Mahatma Gandhi

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Mahatma Gandhi

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Mahatma Gandhi

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Mahatma Gandhi

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Mahatma Gandhi

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Mahatma Gandhi

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Author Bio

  • NameMahatma Gandhi
  • Descriptionpre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
  • AliasesBapu; Gandhi; Gandhiji; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; M K Gandhi; Mohandas K. Gandhi; mahatma gandhi; gandhi appupan; Mohandas Gandhi
  • BornOctober 2, 1869
  • DiedJanuary 30, 1948
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer; Political Writer; Journalist; Philosopher; Autobiographer; Essayist; Newspaper Editor; Political Activist
  • AwardsTime Person Of The Year