Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.
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In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.
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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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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.
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The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.
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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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Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.
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To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
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For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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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.
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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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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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If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
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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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Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
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Action expresses priorities.
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A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.
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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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It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage.
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Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.