Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
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Morality is contraband in war.
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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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To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
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People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.
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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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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
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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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A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
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In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
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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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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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It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
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The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
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When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
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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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Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.
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Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.