Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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War knows no law except that of might.
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Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.
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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
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Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.
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Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.
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As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
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The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?
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My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.
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India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.
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A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.
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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.
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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
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Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.
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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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If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
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It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
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To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
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The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.
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We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
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In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
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A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.
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Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
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I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
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The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.