Mahatma Gandhi Long Quotations

Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

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

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Buddhism in one long prayer.

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

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

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.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

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.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.

Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.