Mahatma Gandhi Giving Quotations

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said:

Love never claims, it ever gives.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

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 greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

Violent means will give violent freedom.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

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

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

Be the change that you want to see

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

To give one's heart is to give all.

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.

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.

The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.