Quotes & Sayings About Politics By Mahatma Gandhi

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

My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to us in the late twentieth century, a period of a totalitarianism linked with the market. There is really no other way you can do politics and create freedom for people without the kinds of instruments he revived. Civil disobedience is a way to create permanent democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy. — Vandana Shiva

Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks. — Mahatma Gandhi

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nations are born out of travail and suffering — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics. — Mahatma Gandhi

If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet. — Mahatma Gandhi

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics. — Mahatma Gandhi

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 in the holy name of liberty or democracy? — Mahatma Gandhi

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned. — Mahatma Gandhi

Even in small matters, we can say, our intellect is not resolute. It will be resolute only if we fix our minds on one purpose and cling to it with discrimination, only if we work without looking for immediate results. At present, whether in politics or social reform we leap from one branch to another. I began with the illustration of a ball of earth and told you that, even if we concentrate on that, we can realise the atman. — Mahatma Gandhi

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored. — Mahatma Gandhi

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi

The best politics is right action. — 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

Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics ... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality. — Mahatma Gandhi

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern! — Mahatma Gandhi

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles. — Mahatma Gandhi

Politics envelops us like the coils of a snake and no way out but to wrestle with it — Mahatma Gandhi

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics. — Mahatma Gandhi

Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means. — Mahatma Gandhi