Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
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In the midst of darkness, light persists.
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True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
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A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.
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For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
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There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
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Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.
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Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.
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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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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
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Non-cooperation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.
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Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
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The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.
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Make injustice visible.
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On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
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Impure means result in an impure end… One cannot reach truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach Truth.
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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.
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Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
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In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.
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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
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My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.