Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.
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To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.
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The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
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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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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
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One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.
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My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
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Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
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In the midst of death life persists.
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Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.
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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.
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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
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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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What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?
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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.
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The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
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Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
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Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.
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It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.
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If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
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What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?