Mean Quotes

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of 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.

The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

The end is inherent in the means.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Violent means will give violent freedom.

Means are ends in the making

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.

Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

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.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.

Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.

There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.

By any means necessary.

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.