Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.
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I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
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My conception of freedom is no narrow conception. It is co-extensive with the freedom of man in all his majesty.
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I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
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Both heaven and hell are within us.
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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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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
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Action expresses priorities.
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This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.
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In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.
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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
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Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
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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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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
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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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Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.
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Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.
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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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My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
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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.
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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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Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.
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Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
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To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.