Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.
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You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals.
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If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.
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No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
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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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The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.
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If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province.
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I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.
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The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.
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Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.
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Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
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It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
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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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It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.
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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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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.
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My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
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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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Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.