Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.
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Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
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To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
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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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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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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 does not live by destruction.
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A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.
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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
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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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Poverty is the greatest violence.
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Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.
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Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.
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My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.
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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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Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.
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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.