Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.
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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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A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
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Meditation is waiting on God.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
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Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.
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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
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In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
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Purity of life is the highest and truest art.
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A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
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For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.
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May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
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Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
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Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
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Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.
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I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.
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My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.
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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
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A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.
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It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
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My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.
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To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
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If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.