Mahatma Gandhi People Quotations

I do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating.

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.

People cannot hurt you without your permission.

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.

Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.

Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.

People become what they expect themselves to become

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

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.

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

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.

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians (meaning upper caste Hindu Indians) or colored people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trains.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

See the good in people and help them.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

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.