Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.
A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.
I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.
God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.
If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.
If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.
If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God.
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.
There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.
Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.
Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.
My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.
The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.
The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.
If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.
Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.
Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.