Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech.
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The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.
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Man does not live by destruction.
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Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
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We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.
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All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.
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A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.
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Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
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The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.
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My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.
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Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.
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I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.
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Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
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Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
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What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.
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If you want a change in the world, be the change.
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In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.
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My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.
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I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.
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A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.
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To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
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Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
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There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.
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I think it would be an excellent idea.