Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Politics

• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sad

  "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

• Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.454, Courier Corporation

• It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Time, Mean

• My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Freedom, Opportunity

• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Diversity, Patriotism

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

• Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

• If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Snakes, Political, Trying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Change, Heart, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.192, Vintage

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Soul, Flesh

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.193, Tara Publishing

• Nations are born out of travail and suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suffering, Politics, Born

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sad, Public Opinion, Politics

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Political, Mind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.106, Rajpal & Sons

• Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Trying My Hardest, Political

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “A Day Book of Thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi”

• It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Voting, Progress, Politics

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, War, Axes

• This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Secret, Cost, Politics

• I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Cells, Order

• Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Money, Evil, Political

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.247, Courier Corporation

• It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear, Atheism, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.81, Courier Corporation

• The best politics is right action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Politics, Action, Right Action

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