Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
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Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.
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Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.
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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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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
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Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
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It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
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Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
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If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.
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A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.
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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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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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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
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The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
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Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.
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Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
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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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Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
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The best politics is right action.
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At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.
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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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Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
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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.