Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
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Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
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If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.
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We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.
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With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.
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There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.
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Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
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People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
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It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
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Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.
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The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.
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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
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Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.
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Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
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The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
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It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
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God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.
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Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point.
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Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
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What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.
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There is no road towards peace; peace is the road.
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I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.