Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
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Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?
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Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.
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Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.
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Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.
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Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.
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Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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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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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 spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.
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God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.