Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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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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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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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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If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
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The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
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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 foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.
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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.
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My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
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Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.
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My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
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To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.
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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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Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.
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Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
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My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.