Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.
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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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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."
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I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
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Never make a promise in haste.
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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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Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
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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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Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!
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The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.
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Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
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Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
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To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
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Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
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Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.
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Where there is fear there is no religion.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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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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Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.