Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love.
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It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.
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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.
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The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.