Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
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Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
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[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.
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Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?
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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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Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
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Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.
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Find yourself by losing yourself for others.
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Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.
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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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My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.
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The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.
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Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech.
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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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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
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The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.
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Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
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Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
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In the very act of my non-cooperation, I am seeking their cooperation in my campaign.
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Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.
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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.
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I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.
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True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.