Top 500 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

252. “The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

256. “Means are ends in the making.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

257. “The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but to misuse that power is criminal.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

258. “There are unjust laws, as there are unjust men.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

259. “Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

260. “Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

261. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

265. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

267. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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270. “Self-respect knows no considerations.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

284. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

287. “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

288. “A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

292. “Let our lives be open books for all to study.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

296. “What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

298. “Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

299. “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.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi