Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Quotes

• Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Death

• The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy

• The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy

• In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy

• A “No” uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Attitude, Humanity

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Love

• Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Tags in Nonviolence

•  Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Money

• We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Tags in Nonviolence

• Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence

• 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.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Compromise, Ideals, Perfection

  Tags in Limitations

• Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Hypocrisy

• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Conflict

• I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Christianity

• Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Politics, Religion

• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Religion

• Truth is my God. Nonviolence is my way of realizing Him.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Nonviolence

• I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Globalism

• Self-respect knows no considerations.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Justice, Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Human Rights, Humanism

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (268)

Birth:	2nd October, 1869
Death:	30th January, 1948
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Activist, Lawyer, Leader, Philosopher, Politician, Statesman, Writer

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