Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

452. “The good man is the friend of all living things.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

453. “What is faith if it is not translated into action?”

— Mahatma Gandhi

454. “If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

455. “Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

456. “I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

457. “Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

458. “Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

459. “A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

460. “I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

461. “It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

462. “Be the change you’re trying to create.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

463. “God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

464. “Concentrate on your task.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

465. “A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

466. “Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

467. “Good government is no substitute for self-government.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

468. “The wind of God’s grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

469. “The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

470. “I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

471. “The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

472. “The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

473. “If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

474. “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.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

475. “Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

476. “Life is but an endless series of experiments.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

477. “Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

478. “Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

479. “If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

480. “Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

481. “Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

482. “Never make a promise in haste.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

483. “Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

484. “To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

485. “What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

486. “There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

487. “Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

488. “If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

489. “Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

490. “If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

491. “Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

492. “It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

493. “Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

494. “God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

495. “Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India’s just cause.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

496. “I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

497. “Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

498. “The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

499. “A man of truth must also be a man of care.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

500. “Those who believe religion and politics aren’t connected don’t understand either.”

— Mahatma Gandhi