Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.
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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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My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
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Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
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To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.
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I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.
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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
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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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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
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I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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Both heaven and hell are within us.
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None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
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Action expresses priorities.
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Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.
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Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
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If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.
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Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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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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If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
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Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.