Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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In the midst of darkness, light persists.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
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Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
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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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A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
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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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The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
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My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
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The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.
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The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
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Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.
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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
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Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
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It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
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Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.
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What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
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We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these.
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To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
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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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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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One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.