Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

God alone knows absolute Truth.

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.

They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.