Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.
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Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.
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I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
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On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
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He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.
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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
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All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.
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The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.
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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
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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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India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
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The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
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Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.
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Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.
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Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.
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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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The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
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A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
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The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
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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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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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The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.