Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.
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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.
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There is no god higher than truth.
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A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
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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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True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
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The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.
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Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.
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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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Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
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A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
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In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.
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True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
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Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
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The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
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If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.
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There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
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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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If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.
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Well, India is a country of nonsense.
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My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.