M.K Gandhi Quotes
I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.
I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.
The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.
Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
