Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.
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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
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Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
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The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.
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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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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
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True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
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Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
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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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In the midst of darkness, light persists.
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Nations are born out of travail and suffering.
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Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.
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I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.
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No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
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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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The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
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Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
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Non-cooperation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.
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Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.