Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I did, in the presence of the Lord God, declare that I denied the wearing or drawing of a carnal sword, or any other outward weapon, against him or any man; and that I was sent of God to stand a witness against all violence, and against the works of darkness; and to turn people from darkness to light; and to bring them from the causes of war and fighting, to the peaceable gospel.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

It is our hope that when people read "March" - Book One, Book Two, and Book Three - that they will understand that another generation of people, especially young people, were deeply inspired by the work of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others.

Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

I feel like God blessed me to be successful and to have a couple of more things that a lot of people of where I come from didn't have or didn't see, but it ain't always about me. It's about empowering the next generation so that's what I love doing.

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.”

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

To me non-violence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people, and, therefore, I am devoting all my energies towards the establishment of a society that should be based on its principles of truth and peace.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

May I always hear that you are following the guidance of that blessed Spirit that will lead you into all truth, leaning on that Almighty arm that has been extended to deliver you, trusting only in the only Savior, and going on in your way to Him rejoicing.