Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.
Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.
If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.
The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.
True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.
I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.
A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.
God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.
Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
