Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.
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A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.
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Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
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If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.
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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.
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We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.
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In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?
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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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The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.
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But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
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The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
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Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.
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If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
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I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.
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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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Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
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Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
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The primary object of non-cooperation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
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Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
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The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.
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The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.
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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.