Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
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My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 million took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare.
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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
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I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.
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I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.
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Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
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Be the change you seek.
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Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
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The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
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Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.
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My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.
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He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.
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Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.
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We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.
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If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
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An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
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Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.