Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
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The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.
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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.
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My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
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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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I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.
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If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.
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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
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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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Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.
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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
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Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.
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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
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Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
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A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.
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The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.
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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
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With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.
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Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
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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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You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.