Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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.
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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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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
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The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
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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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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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I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
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It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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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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Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.
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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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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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Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
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The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
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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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My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
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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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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
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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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None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
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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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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.