Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.
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I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
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The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.
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It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.
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If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.
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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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With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body.
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I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.
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I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.
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Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
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He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.
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In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.
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I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.
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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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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised-the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
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If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.
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Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
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Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
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If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.
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The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and that it will reaquire centuries before we become one nation. This is without foundation. We were one nation before they came to India. One thought inspired us. Our mode of life was the same. It was because we were one nation that they were able to establish one kingdom.
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You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
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The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.