Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.
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An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
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The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.
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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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President means chief servant.
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Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
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If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.
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If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province.
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It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
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Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
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We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
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Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
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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 sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
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The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.
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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
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It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.
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A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.
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I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
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I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.
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He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.