Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.
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I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
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If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.
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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
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Be the change that you want to see.
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Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
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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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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.
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Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.
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Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.
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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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Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
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A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.
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Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.
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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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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
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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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Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
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I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.
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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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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.