Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
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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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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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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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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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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.
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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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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
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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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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 call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
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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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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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No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.
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A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
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Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
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Our peaceful non – co – operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.
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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
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Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
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All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.