Epigrams From Gandhiji

(Gandhi Quotes on various subjects)

Compiled by: S.R. Tikekar

Published by: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, [1971]

Mahatma Gandhi’s quotations on subjects like truth, nonviolence, Satyagraha, etc., are known universally. But what were his views on copyright? Or what had he to say about a rose or a right angle? It will be amusing and enlightening to know this.

This is a collection of pithy sayings of Mahatma Gandhi on various subjects and important issues for rapid reference. The compiler has selected a few thousand epigrams from Gandhiji’s voluminous writings. The epigrams have been arranged alphabetically and the source of each epigram is given below it.

| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y |

KEY TO SOURCES | GLOSSARY - SOURCES

A	Abstinence \| Abuse \| Action \| Administration \| Advaita \| Affliction \| Africa \| Aggressor \| Agriculture \| Ahimsa \| America \| Anekantvada \| Anger \| Angle \| Appeasement \| Armaments \| Army \| Art \| Asceticism \| Astrology \| Atheist \| Atom Bomb \| Autocracy
B	Banker \| Basic Education \| Beast \| Beauty \| Bhagwad Gita (Gita) \| Birth \| Birth Control \| Blame \| Bone \| Boycott \| Brahmins-Brahminism \| Brave- Bravery \| Brother-Brotherhood \| Brute-Brute Force \| Buddha- Buddhism
C	Calamity \| Capital-Capitalism \| Castles in Air \| Cattle \| Celibacy \| Changeless \| Character \| Charkha (Spinning Wheel) \| Chastity\| Children \| Christ-Christianity \| Citizenship \| Civil Disobedience \| Civilization \| Civil-Resistance \| Cleanliness \| Coercion \| Communism-Bolshevism \| Compromise \| Compulsion \| Concentration \| Conduct \| Confession \| Conscience \| Constructive Programme \| Contentment \| Control \| Conversion \| Cooperation \| Copyright \| Correction \| Corruption \| Cottage Industry \| Courage \| Cow \| Coward-Cowardice \| Creator \| Crime \| Criticism \| Cruel\| Culture
D	Daridranarayana \| Death \| Debt \| Deception \| Defeat \| Defence \| Democracy \| Dependence\| Desire \| Despair \| Destiny \| Devotee-Devotion (Bhakti) \| Diagnosis \| Dignity \| Diplomacy \| Disarmament \| Discipline \| Disease \| Dishonesty \| Distinction \| Distrust \| Divine Rights \| Divinity \| Doctor \| Dominion Status \| Dream\| Drink \| Duty
E	Earning \| Earth \| Earthquake \| Eating \| Economics \| Education \| Effort \| Ego \| Employment \| Enemy \| Englishmen-English Language \| Equality \| Ethics \| Euclid \| Europe \| Evil \| Evolution \| Experiment \| Exploitation
F	Faith \| Fast-Fasting \| Fear-Fearless \| Fight \| Fire \| Flag \| Flattery \| Force \| Foreign-Cloth \| Forgiveness \| Freedom \| Friends-Friendship
G	Gandhism \| Gentleness \| Germany \| Gifts \| God\| Gold \| Golden Rule\| Good-Goodness \| Goondas \| Government of India \| Grave\| Gravitation \| Greatness
H	Handicraft \| Handsome \| Hanuman \| Happiness \| Harijan \| Haste \| Hate-Hatred \| Health\| Helplessness \| Himalayas \| Hindi \| Hindu-Hinduism \| History \| Hitler \| Honesty \| Hope \| Hostility \| Human Dignity \| Human Family \| Humanity \| Human Nature \| Humility \| Hunger \| Hunger-Strike \| Hypocrisy
I	Ideal \| Idleness \| Idol-Idolatry \| Ignorance \| Illiteracy \| Imitation \| Immoral \| Immortal \| Impatience \| Imperialists-Imperialism \| Imposition \| Impossible \| Impression \| Independence \| India-Indians \| Indiscipline \| Individualism \| Inequality \| Inheritance \| Injustice \| Inner Voice \| Innocent \| Interdependence \| Internationalism \| Intolerance \| Iron \| Islam
J	Japan \| Jealousy \| Journalism \| Joy \| Justice
K	Karma Yoga \| Khadi-Khaddar \| Kisan \| Knowledge
L	Labour \| Language \| Law \| Leaders \| Learning \| Legislatures \| Liberation \| Liberty \| Life \| Lions \| Literacy \| Literature \| Lokmanya Tilak \| Love
M	Machine-Machinery \| Mahabharata \| Mahatma \| Majority \| Man-Mankind \| Marriage \| Masses \| Military-Militarization \| Millions \| Mind \| Minority \| Misdeeds \| Missionary \| Mistrust \| Mobs-Mobocracy \| Moral Force-Morality \| Mortification \| Mother-Motherhood \| Mother-Tongue \| Murder \| Museums \| Music
N	Narcotics \| Nation-National-Nationalism \| Nature \| Nature Care \| Non-Cooperation \| Nonviolence
O	Obedience \| Ocean \| Oppression \| Optimist \| Organisation \| Orthodox
P	Parliament \| Passion \| Passive Resistance \| Patience \| Patient \| Patriotism \| Peace \| People \| Perfect-Perfection \| Picketing \| Pledge \| Poetry \| Police \| Politics-Political \| Pomp \| Poor- Poverty \| Possible \| Power \| Prayer \| Preaching \| Prison \| Progress \| Prohibition \| Promise \| Propaganda \| Prophets \| Public Opinion \| Punishment \| Pure-Purity-Purification
R	Rama-Ramayana-Ram Raj \| Rationalism \| Reading \| Realization \| Reason \| Rebellion \| Reform- Reformer \| Regularity \| Religion\| Renunciation \| Repose \| Repression \| Research \| Resolution \| Responsibility \| Restraint \| Retaliation \| Retirement \| Revolutionary \| Reward \| Rich \| Ridicule \| Right \| Right Angle \| Risk \| Rome \| Rose
S	Sacrifice \| Sad \| Saint \| Salt \| Salvation \| Sanitation \| Sanskrit \| Satan \| Satyagraha-Satyagrahi \| Scavenger \| Schools \| Science \| Scriptures \| Self \| Self-Confidence \| Self-Control \| Self-Defense \| Self-Determination \| Self-Government \| Self-immolation \| Self-indulgence \| Selflessness \| Self-Pity \| Self-Realization \| Self-Reliant \| Self-Respect \| Self-Restraint \| Self- Righteousness \| Self-Rule \| Self-Sacrifice \| Self- Suffering \| Self-Supporting \| Self-Surrender \| Service \| Silence \| Simplicity \| Slave-Slavery \| Small Things \| Smoking \| Socialism \| Society \| Soldier \| Sorrow \| Soul-Soul-Force \| Spiritual-Spiritualism \| Starvation \| State \| Strikes \| Strong-Strength \| Struggle \| Student \| Success \| Suffering \| Superiority \| Superman \| Superstition \| Supreme Judge \| Swadeshi \| Swaraj \| Sword
T	Taboo \| Taxation \| Teacher \| Temples \| Temptation \| Terrorism \| Thinking \| Thoughts \| Time \| Tolerance-Toleration \| Tolstoy \| Tools \| Tragedy \| Treachery \| Trust \| Truth
U	Undertaking \| Unity \| Universal \| University \| Untouchability \| Untruth \| Utility
V	Vaccination \| Varnasharam Dharma \| Vedas \| Vegetarianism \| Vice \| Victory \| Villages \| Violence-Himsa \| Virtue \| Vow
W	War \| Waste \| Wealth \| Welfare \| Widow-Widowhood \| Woman \| Work \| World \| Worship \| Wrong
Y	Yajna \| Youth

A	Abstinence \| Abuse \| Action \| Administration \| Advaita \| Affliction \| Africa \| Aggressor \| Agriculture \| Ahimsa \| America \| Anekantvada \| Anger \| Angle \| Appeasement \| Armaments \| Army \| Art \| Asceticism \| Astrology \| Atheist \| Atom Bomb \| Autocracy
B	Banker \| Basic Education \| Beast \| Beauty \| Bhagwad Gita (Gita) \| Birth \| Birth Control \| Blame \| Bone \| Boycott \| Brahmins-Brahminism \| Brave- Bravery \| Brother-Brotherhood \| Brute-Brute Force \| Buddha- Buddhism
C	Calamity \| Capital-Capitalism \| Castles in Air \| Cattle \| Celibacy \| Changeless \| Character \| Charkha (Spinning Wheel) \| Chastity\| Children \| Christ-Christianity \| Citizenship \| Civil Disobedience \| Civilization \| Civil-Resistance \| Cleanliness \| Coercion \| Communism-Bolshevism \| Compromise \| Compulsion \| Concentration \| Conduct \| Confession \| Conscience \| Constructive Programme \| Contentment \| Control \| Conversion \| Cooperation \| Copyright \| Correction \| Corruption \| Cottage Industry \| Courage \| Cow \| Coward-Cowardice \| Creator \| Crime \| Criticism \| Cruel\| Culture
D	Daridranarayana \| Death \| Debt \| Deception \| Defeat \| Defence \| Democracy \| Dependence\| Desire \| Despair \| Destiny \| Devotee-Devotion (Bhakti) \| Diagnosis \| Dignity \| Diplomacy \| Disarmament \| Discipline \| Disease \| Dishonesty \| Distinction \| Distrust \| Divine Rights \| Divinity \| Doctor \| Dominion Status \| Dream\| Drink \| Duty
E	Earning \| Earth \| Earthquake \| Eating \| Economics \| Education \| Effort \| Ego \| Employment \| Enemy \| Englishmen-English Language \| Equality \| Ethics \| Euclid \| Europe \| Evil \| Evolution \| Experiment \| Exploitation
F	Faith \| Fast-Fasting \| Fear-Fearless \| Fight \| Fire \| Flag \| Flattery \| Force \| Foreign-Cloth \| Forgiveness \| Freedom \| Friends-Friendship
G	Gandhism \| Gentleness \| Germany \| Gifts \| God\| Gold \| Golden Rule\| Good-Goodness \| Goondas \| Government of India \| Grave\| Gravitation \| Greatness
H	Handicraft \| Handsome \| Hanuman \| Happiness \| Harijan \| Haste \| Hate-Hatred \| Health\| Helplessness \| Himalayas \| Hindi \| Hindu-Hinduism \| History \| Hitler \| Honesty \| Hope \| Hostility \| Human Dignity \| Human Family \| Humanity \| Human Nature \| Humility \| Hunger \| Hunger-Strike \| Hypocrisy
I	Ideal \| Idleness \| Idol-Idolatry \| Ignorance \| Illiteracy \| Imitation \| Immoral \| Immortal \| Impatience \| Imperialists-Imperialism \| Imposition \| Impossible \| Impression \| Independence \| India-Indians \| Indiscipline \| Individualism \| Inequality \| Inheritance \| Injustice \| Inner Voice \| Innocent \| Interdependence \| Internationalism \| Intolerance \| Iron \| Islam
J	Japan \| Jealousy \| Journalism \| Joy \| Justice
K	Karma Yoga \| Khadi-Khaddar \| Kisan \| Knowledge
L	Labour \| Language \| Law \| Leaders \| Learning \| Legislatures \| Liberation \| Liberty \| Life \| Lions \| Literacy \| Literature \| Lokmanya Tilak \| Love
M	Machine-Machinery \| Mahabharata \| Mahatma \| Majority \| Man-Mankind \| Marriage \| Masses \| Military-Militarization \| Millions \| Mind \| Minority \| Misdeeds \| Missionary \| Mistrust \| Mobs-Mobocracy \| Moral Force-Morality \| Mortification \| Mother-Motherhood \| Mother-Tongue \| Murder \| Museums \| Music
N	Narcotics \| Nation-National-Nationalism \| Nature \| Nature Care \| Non-Cooperation \| Nonviolence
O	Obedience \| Ocean \| Oppression \| Optimist \| Organisation \| Orthodox
P	Parliament \| Passion \| Passive Resistance \| Patience \| Patient \| Patriotism \| Peace \| People \| Perfect-Perfection \| Picketing \| Pledge \| Poetry \| Police \| Politics-Political \| Pomp \| Poor- Poverty \| Possible \| Power \| Prayer \| Preaching \| Prison \| Progress \| Prohibition \| Promise \| Propaganda \| Prophets \| Public Opinion \| Punishment \| Pure-Purity-Purification
R	Rama-Ramayana-Ram Raj \| Rationalism \| Reading \| Realization \| Reason \| Rebellion \| Reform- Reformer \| Regularity \| Religion\| Renunciation \| Repose \| Repression \| Research \| Resolution \| Responsibility \| Restraint \| Retaliation \| Retirement \| Revolutionary \| Reward \| Rich \| Ridicule \| Right \| Right Angle \| Risk \| Rome \| Rose
S	Sacrifice \| Sad \| Saint \| Salt \| Salvation \| Sanitation \| Sanskrit \| Satan \| Satyagraha-Satyagrahi \| Scavenger \| Schools \| Science \| Scriptures \| Self \| Self-Confidence \| Self-Control \| Self-Defense \| Self-Determination \| Self-Government \| Self-immolation \| Self-indulgence \| Selflessness \| Self-Pity \| Self-Realization \| Self-Reliant \| Self-Respect \| Self-Restraint \| Self- Righteousness \| Self-Rule \| Self-Sacrifice \| Self- Suffering \| Self-Supporting \| Self-Surrender \| Service \| Silence \| Simplicity \| Slave-Slavery \| Small Things \| Smoking \| Socialism \| Society \| Soldier \| Sorrow \| Soul-Soul-Force \| Spiritual-Spiritualism \| Starvation \| State \| Strikes \| Strong-Strength \| Struggle \| Student \| Success \| Suffering \| Superiority \| Superman \| Superstition \| Supreme Judge \| Swadeshi \| Swaraj \| Sword
T	Taboo \| Taxation \| Teacher \| Temples \| Temptation \| Terrorism \| Thinking \| Thoughts \| Time \| Tolerance-Toleration \| Tolstoy \| Tools \| Tragedy \| Treachery \| Trust \| Truth
U	Undertaking \| Unity \| Universal \| University \| Untouchability \| Untruth \| Utility
V	Vaccination \| Varnasharam Dharma \| Vedas \| Vegetarianism \| Vice \| Victory \| Villages \| Violence-Himsa \| Virtue \| Vow
W	War \| Waste \| Wealth \| Welfare \| Widow-Widowhood \| Woman \| Work \| World \| Worship \| Wrong
Y	Yajna \| Youth

Some men changed their times...
One man changed the World for all times!

Comprehensive Website on the life and works of

Mahatma Gandhi

Epigrams From Gandhiji

(Gandhi Quotes on various subjects)

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Some men changed their times...One man changed the World for all times!

Comprehensive Website on the life and works of

Mahatma Gandhi

Epigrams From Gandhiji

(Gandhi Quotes on various subjects)

| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y |

KEY TO SOURCES | GLOSSARY - SOURCES

Some men changed their times...
One man changed the World for all times!