Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
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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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Democracy and violence can ill go together.
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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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Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.
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Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
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All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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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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If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'
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The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
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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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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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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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The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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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 Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
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Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.
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The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."