Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.
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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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An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
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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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Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
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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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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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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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Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.
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If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.
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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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I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
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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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Action expresses priorities.
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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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One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.
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I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.
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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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A man of truth must also be a man of care.
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Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.