Quote

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mahatma Gandhi
Age: 78 †
Born: 1869
Born: October 2
Died: 1948
Died: January 30
Autobiographer
Barrister
Civil Rights Advocate
Civil Rights Leader
Essayist
Humanitarian
Journalist
Memoirist
Newspaper Editor
Peace Activist
Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
M. K. Gandhi
Mohandas K Gandhi
M K Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi
Bapu
Gandhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhiji
Gandhji
Bapuji
Father of the Nation
Mahatma Gandhi
Destroyed
Brave
Deserve
Himsa
Weak
Ahimsa
Knee
Bend
Deserves
Knees

More quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Image
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words. Let your words be positive for they will become your actions. Let your actions be positive for they will become your values. Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi