Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
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It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.
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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
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My conception of freedom is no narrow conception. It is co-extensive with the freedom of man in all his majesty.
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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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You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.
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A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
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You can't lead a true life without suffering.
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I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
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Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
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High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.
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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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Waiting on God means increasing purity.
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The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
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Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.