Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.
Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.
Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.
Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.
I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.
Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.
I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.
I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.
It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.
Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.
I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.
Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.
Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.
The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.
A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.
Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
