Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.
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The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
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Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
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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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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
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In the midst of death life persists.
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There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
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My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.
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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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There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
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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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A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.
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Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.
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Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
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The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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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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Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat.
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The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.
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A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.
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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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Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.