Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.
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We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
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The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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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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Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
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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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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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If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
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Well, India is a country of nonsense.
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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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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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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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Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.
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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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Without living Truth, God is nowhere.
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Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
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By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
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A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
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Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.