Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
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In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
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It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.
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A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
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In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.
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The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
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Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
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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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God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.
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Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.
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Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.
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Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.
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History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
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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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Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.
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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
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I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
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If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.