Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.
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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.
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Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.
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It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.
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It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
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For the poor, the economic is spiritual.
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Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
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I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.
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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.
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I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
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Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.