Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
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Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.
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I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
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I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan if he waged war against the British Government. That is to say, I would openly tell my countrymen that it would be a crime to help a government which had lost the confidence of the nation to remain in power.
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If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
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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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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.
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The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
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It is the law of love that rules mankind.
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The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.
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There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
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There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
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It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
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The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
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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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My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
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Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
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Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.
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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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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
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Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.