Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.
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Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.
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No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
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The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
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The avowed policy of non-cooperation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
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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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Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.
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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.
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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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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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You can't lead a true life without suffering.
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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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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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Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
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Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.
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Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
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If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
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I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
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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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I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
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My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.