Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
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We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.
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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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Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.
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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
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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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The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
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Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
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Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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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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There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
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Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.
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Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.
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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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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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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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No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.
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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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All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.
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Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.
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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.