Gandhi Quotes

“Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.”
― Gandhi Mahatma, Mahatma Gandhi's Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth

“How it is that Bengal with all its knowledge, intelligence, sacrifice, and emotion tolerates this slaughter?”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“The people are like a flock of sheep, following where leaders lead them.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“How heavy is the toll of sins and wrongs that wealth, power and prestige exact from man!”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I have no doubt that the ideal is for public institutions to live, like nature, from day to day. The institution that fails to win public support has no right to exist as such.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Sir Pherozeshah had seemed to me like the Himalaya, the Lokamanya like the ocean. But Gokhale was as the Ganges.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I had never found people quick to pay the amounts they had undertaken to subscribe, and the Natal Indians were no exception to the rule. As, therefore, no work was done unless there were funds on hand, the Natal Indian Congress has never been in debt.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“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, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I must confess that here I had to compromise the principle of giving no commission, which in Bombay I had so scrupulously observed. I was told that conditions in the two cases were different; that whilst in Bombay commissions had to be paid to touts, here they had to be paid to vakils who briefed you; and that here as in Bombay all barristers, without exception, paid a percentage of their fees as commission.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe in the Hindu theory of Guru and his importance in spiritual realisation. I think there is a great deal of truth in the doctrine that true knowledge is impossible without a Guru.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“A vakil should know human nature. He should be able to read a man’s character from his face. And every Indian ought to know Indian history.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“But the path of self-purification is hard and steep. To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Human language can but imperfectly describe God’s ways.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“may not, now or hereafter, enter into a detailed account of the experiments in dietetics, for I did so in a series of Gujarati articles which appeared years ago in Indian Opinion, and which were afterwards published in the form of a book popularly known in English as A Guide to Health. Among my little books this has been the most widely read alike in the East and in the West, a thing that I have not yet been able to understand. It was written for the benefit of the readers of Indian Opinion. But I know that the booklet has profoundly influenced the lives of many, both in the East and in the West, who have never seen Indian Opinion.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“selfishness is blind.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God, that is Truth, is an uncertainty.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Only he Who is smitten with the arrows of love, Knows its power.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Where is there a wretch So wicked and loathsome as I? I have forsaken my Maker, So faithless have I been.”
― Mohandas K. Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“This ahimsa is the basis of the search for truth. I am realizing every day that the search is vain unless it is founded on ahimsa as the basis. It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“I am definitely of opinion that a public worker should accept no costly gifts.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“If my character made a gentleman of me, so much the better. Otherwise, I should forego the ambition.”
― Mohandas Gandhi, The Story Of My Experiments With Truth: Annotated