M.K Gandhi Quotes
If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.
On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.
It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.
Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.
People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.
The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.
Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.
Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.
All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.
It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.
Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.
God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.
God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings.
"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.
Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.