Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.
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The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.
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Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.
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Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
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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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I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.
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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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To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.
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Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.
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While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see 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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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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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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The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.
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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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I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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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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I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
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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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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 you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.
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There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
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Without living Truth, God is nowhere.