Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.
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Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.
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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
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I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.
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There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
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If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.
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Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.
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Both heaven and hell are within us.
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I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.
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Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.
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Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.
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Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
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Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
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Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
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I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.