Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.
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He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.
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Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.
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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
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One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.
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To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
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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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I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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Your action expresses your priorities.
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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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Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.
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My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
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The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
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Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
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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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Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
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What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
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A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.
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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.