Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We don't use guns because we don't have guns.
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If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
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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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We must become the change we want to see.
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We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
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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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Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.
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There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.
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The English peace is the peace of the grave.
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A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
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Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
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Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
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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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To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
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Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
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There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.
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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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[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.
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To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.
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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
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Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.
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There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.
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The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.