Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
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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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No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.
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There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
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Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
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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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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.
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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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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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Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
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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 have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.
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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
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I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
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The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.
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Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
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Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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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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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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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.