Mahatma Gandhi May Quotations

We may attack systems. We must not attack men.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

Watches may disagree, but let us not.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

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

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.