Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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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.
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.
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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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I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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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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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
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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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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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For the poor, the economic is spiritual.
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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.
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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
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That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
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There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.
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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
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Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.
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Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
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The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
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The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.