Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.
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For the poor, the economic is spiritual.
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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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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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If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.
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Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.
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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.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
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An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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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 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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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.
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Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
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It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.
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I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
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What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.