Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948The quotations of
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist
1869–1948
46 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Life & Death and Truth & Lies.
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
- Non-Violence in Peace and War p. 254 (1948)
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
- Mohandas Gandhi, 17th October 1929. Quoted in Gandhi: The Essential Writings. Judith M. Brown, Oxford University Press, 1998 (pp. 228-9)
- chapter 01. Independence Pledge ( 1930 )
- Mahatma Gandhi. October 1927. The Collected Works, Volume 35, New Delhi, 1968, pp. 166-67. Quoted in Goel, S.R. History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (1996)
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
“Interview to the Press” in Karachi about the execution of Bhagat Singh (23 March 1931); published in Young India (2 April 1931), reprinted in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Online Vol. 51- Young India (15 September 1920), reprinted in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 21 (electronic edition), p. 252.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
To Every Briton (1940)- From Discussion with BG Kher and others, 15 August 1940. Gandhi’s Wisdom Box (1942), edited by Dewan Ram Parkash, p. 67 also in Collected works of Mahatma Gandhi Vol. 79 (PDF), p. 122
- Harijan, 10 August 1947, in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 89, p. 137.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Written statement in trial for sedition, March 1922
