Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We don't use guns because we don't have guns.
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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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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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The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.
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The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light.
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If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.
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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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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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Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.
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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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Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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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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True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.
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Poverty is the greatest violence.
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Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.
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Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
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Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
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Find yourself by losing yourself for others.
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Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.
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A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.
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The true source of rights is duty.
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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.