Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.
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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
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The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
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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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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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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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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.
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If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.
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The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.
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The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
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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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It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
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Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
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I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
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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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India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.
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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
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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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Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.
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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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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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Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.