Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
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Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.
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If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.
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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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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
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Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.
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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
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Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
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My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
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If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.
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If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised-the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
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If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.
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The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.
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Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
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To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.