Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.
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Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
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When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
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An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
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If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.
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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
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The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.
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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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If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
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Morality is contraband in war.
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Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.
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To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.
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It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.
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Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
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The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.
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I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.