Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
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Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
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If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.
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Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.
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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
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The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
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Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
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Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.
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The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
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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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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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You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.
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There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.
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Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
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I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.
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My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
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Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
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You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals.
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Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
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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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At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.