Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.
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A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
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Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
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In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
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Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.
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It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
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Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.
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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
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Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.
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I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
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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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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
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Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.
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Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
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History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
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For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
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All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
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Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
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You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
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That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.
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If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.