Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
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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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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
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Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.
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To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.
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I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.
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No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
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Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
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A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.
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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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To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.
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External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.
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It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?
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Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
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If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
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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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It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.
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If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.
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Truth is one, paths are many.