Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
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In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.
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The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
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He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.
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Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.
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I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
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The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
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A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
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My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.
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In the midst of darkness, light persists.
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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
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True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
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A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.
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I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
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A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.
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Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
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At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.
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If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.
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To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.
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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
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A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.
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Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
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The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.