Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

252. “Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

253. “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

254. “My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

255. “I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

256. “Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

257. “If you give me rice, I’ll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I’ll eat every day.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

258. “There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

259. “Self-respect knows no considerations.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

260. “Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

261. “It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

262. “It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?”

— Mahatma Gandhi

263. “Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

264. “In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

265. “My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India’s rise so that the whole world may benefit.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

266. “Hatred can be overcome only by love.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

267. “In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

268. “Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?”

— Mahatma Gandhi

269. “Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

270. “The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

271. “Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

272. “The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

273. “My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

274. “Journalism has become the art of “intelligent anticipation of events.””

— Mahatma Gandhi

275. “My commitment is to truth not consistency.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

276. “All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

277. “Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

278. “Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

279. “It is beneath human dignity to lose one’s individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

280. “Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation – these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

281. “One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

282. “Purity of life is the highest and truest art.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

283. “Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

284. “India’s way is not Europe’s. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

285. “The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

286. “Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

287. “The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

288. “It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

289. “Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

290. “There is no road towards peace; peace is the road.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

291. “Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

292. “Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

293. “When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

294. “The measure of a country’s greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

295. “The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

296. “Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

297. “The true source of rights is duty.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

298. “The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

299. “Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

300. “Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.”

— Mahatma Gandhi