Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.
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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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Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.
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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
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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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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
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When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
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We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
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There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
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Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
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Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
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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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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
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I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
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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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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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With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
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The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.