Mahatma Gandhi Use Quotations

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.

The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

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

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.

We don't use guns because we don't have guns

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.