Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
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If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.
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The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
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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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The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.
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Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?
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Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.
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To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
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A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
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All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.
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And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.
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"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.
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The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.
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The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.
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Adversity is the mother of progress.
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For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.
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Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
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Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.
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Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
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If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
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A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
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We must become the change we want to see.