Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.
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The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
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A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
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Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.
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Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.
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Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?
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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.
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Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.
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President means chief servant.
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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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Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
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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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Without living Truth, God is nowhere.
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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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Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.
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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
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The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.
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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
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A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.