Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolized when dead, but crucified when living.

Martyrdom does not end something. It is only the beginning.

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

The more people who die for our cause, the stronger we shall become.

The people's flag is deepest red; It shrouded oft our martyred dead .... Then raise the scarlet standard high. Within its shade we'll live or die. Tho' cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here.

I can give you nothing but my life. I wish that my last breath might be of use to my fellow citizens and that my head'[after she was guillotined], carried through Paris, might be a signal to rally all the friends of justice …. I have shown you the way. You know your enemies. Arise, march, and strike!

Those prepared to die for the truth, as a rule make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them.

I am prepared to die but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

If blood is to be shed, let it be our blood ... For man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hand of his brother, never by killing him.

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

The ship of the revolution can only arrive in port on water red with blood.

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

I am inspired by the likes of Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana and those of their calibre. They understood fully what it means to be selfless and to stand for something.

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.