Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.
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Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.
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At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
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I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
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I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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Be the change that you want to see.
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Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
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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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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
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What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.
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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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We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.
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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
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Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
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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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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.
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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
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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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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
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Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
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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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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.