Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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I know of no one who has done more for humanity than Jesus. In fact, there is nothing wrong with Christianity … The trouble is with you Christians. You do not begin to live up to your own teachings.
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Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.
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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
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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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As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.
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The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.
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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
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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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A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.
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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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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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Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.
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Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
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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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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
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The avowed policy of non-cooperation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
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They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.
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The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.
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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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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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If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.