Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.
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To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.
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The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.
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As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
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In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
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Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
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A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.
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The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence.
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Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
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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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I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.
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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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Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
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Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.
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Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.
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Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?
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Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.
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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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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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That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
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Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?
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Let us work together for unity and love.