Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.
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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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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
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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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Whatever the ultimate fate of my country, my love for you remains, and will remain, undiminished. My non-violence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. It is that love which has prompted my appeal to you.
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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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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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
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Cowards can never be moral.
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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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Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
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No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.
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The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
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If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
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A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
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My life is my message.
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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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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.
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I draw no distinction between error and sin. If a man commits a bona fide mistake and confesses it with a contrite heart before his Maker, the merciful Maker sterilizes it of all harm.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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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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Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.