Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.
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It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.
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Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
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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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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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If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
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It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.
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The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.
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Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
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In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
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Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
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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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Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
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A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
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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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The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.
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Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
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Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
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Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
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Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.
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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.