Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
-
Selfless action is a source of strength.
-
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
-
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
-
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
-
My religion teaches me to love all equally.
-
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
-
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
-
There is no love where there is no will.
-
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
-
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
-
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
-
I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
-
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
-
If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
-
Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.
-
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
-
I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.
-
The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
-
By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
-
The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.
-
If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
-
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
-
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
-
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.