Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.
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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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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
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Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
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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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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised-the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
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It is the law of love that rules mankind.
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What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
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Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
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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 eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.
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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
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It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.
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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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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
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How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
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If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
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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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To see the universal and all – pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
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It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
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The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.