Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.