Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
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The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
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My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
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If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.
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I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.
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A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
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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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It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.
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The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
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My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.
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Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
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What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
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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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Be the change that you want to see.
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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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Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.
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Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.
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What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.
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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
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He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.
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Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!
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Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.