Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.
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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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Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.
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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
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Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.
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Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
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The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.
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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
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Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
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If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
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If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
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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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There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
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Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
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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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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
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The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.
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All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.
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I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts.
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
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It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.