Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
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By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
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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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Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.
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Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
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Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
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There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
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The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.
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Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
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I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.
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Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.
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It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
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If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.
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Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.
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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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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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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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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.