Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.
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We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.
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It is the law of love that rules mankind.
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It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
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Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.
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In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.
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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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Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
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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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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
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Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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No action which is not voluntary can be called moral.
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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.
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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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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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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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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
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Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
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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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Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
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Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.
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They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.
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Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.