Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
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No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.
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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
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There's no God higher than truth.
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Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
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In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
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One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
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Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
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The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
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A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj
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For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.