Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.
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An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.
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Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
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My life is my message.
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Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.