Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
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Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
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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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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."
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The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
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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 mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.
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I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.
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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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Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
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If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.
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A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
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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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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.
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Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
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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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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
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A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
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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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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
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As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.