Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.
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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
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It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.
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For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.
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Take care of this moment.
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We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
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Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
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Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
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The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
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Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.
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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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Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.
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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 Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
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In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
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The future of India lies in its villages.
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Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
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Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?
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There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.
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Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
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Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.
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Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
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Non-cooperation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.
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Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.