Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

1869-1948 • Indian

HinduismPerennial Philosophy

Indian lawyer, ascetic and political ethicist who led India to independence through nonviolent civil disobedience. His insistence on satyagraha — truth-force — reshaped 20th-century movements for justice and dignity worldwide.

Key Works

  • The Story of My Experiments with Truth
  • Hind Swaraj
  • Young India
  • Harijan
  • Collected Works
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Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

87 quotes
“I have been a servant of others all my life. I would have it no other way.”
serviceLetters
“Real wealth is not gold, but the love that we share through our service to others.”
serviceConversations
“Live simply so that others may simply live.”
simplicityAttributed, paraphrasing his teaching
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
presenceLetters
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
simplicitySpeech
“It is health that is real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver.”
wealthLetters
“Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of the world, but accepting that they pass away.”
impermanenceConversations
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
compassionSpeech
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
freedomSpeech
“Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.”
freedomHarijan
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
peaceLetters
“No one can hurt me without my permission.”
courageConversations
“The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree; and there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree.”
integrityHind Swaraj
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
dignitySpeech
“Where there is love, there is life.”
loveLetters
“Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two.”
loveYoung India
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.”
loveLetters
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.”
prayerYoung India
“I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him.”
serviceLast writings, 1948
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