Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.
Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.
No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.
I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.
With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.
Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.
What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?
Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?
Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.
Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.
Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.
If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.
If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.
I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.
I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.
Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.
The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.
Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.
Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.
Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.
If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.