Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
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A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
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Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
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I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
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In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
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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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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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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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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
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If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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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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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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Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.
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Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.
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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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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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Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.