Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.
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For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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My life is my message.
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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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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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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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Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
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A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I have regarded Jesus of Nazareth as one amongst the mighty teachers that the world has had. . . . I shall say to the Hindus that your lives will be incomplete unless you reverently study the teachings of Jesus.
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Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
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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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It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.
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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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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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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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In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.