Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.
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The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.
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Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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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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The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
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I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.
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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.
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If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity.
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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
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Social service that savours of patronage is not service.
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There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.
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The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.
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The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.
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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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One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.
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If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
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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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Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.
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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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Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?