Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.
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All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.
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Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
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My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
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Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
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It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.
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My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.
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The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.
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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.
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Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.
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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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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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Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
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Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
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Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.
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I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
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Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
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Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.
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I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.
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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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Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
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Non-cooperation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
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There is no god higher than truth.