Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.
A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.
Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.
According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.
The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.
God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.
I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.
I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.
Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.
No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.
Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.
The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.
The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.
India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.
An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.
Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.
The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.
It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.
Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.
Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.
The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.
Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.
The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.