Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

Sacrifice life to truth.

To lay down one's life for the truth.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

We are not interested in our own personal security. On the contrary, each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah. The most honorable death is to be killed.

Those prepared to die for the truth, as a rule make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them.

When principles fail, men have only one way to save them and to preserve their faith, which is to die for them.

He who defends his money is a martyr, and who defends his religion is a martyr, and he who defends his honor is a martyr.

I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is nothing more nobler a cause that I can think of.

When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.