Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
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I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.
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God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.
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Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
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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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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
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Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.
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If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
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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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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
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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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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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The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.
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I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
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You can't lead a true life without suffering.
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India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
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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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My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
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Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
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Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.
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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.