Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.
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In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.
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Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.
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Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.
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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.
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The primary object of non-cooperation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
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In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.
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Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
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Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
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If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
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Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
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Non-cooperation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.
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Everyone holds a piece of the truth.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
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Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.
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The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.
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What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
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A man of truth must also be a man of care.
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No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.