Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.
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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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There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
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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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Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
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Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
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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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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
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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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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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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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Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
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Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
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If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
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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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I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.
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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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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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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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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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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
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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.