Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
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But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
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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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The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
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If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
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The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.
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If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
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I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.
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History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
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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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Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.
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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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I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.
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There is no god higher than truth.
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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
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Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.
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I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.
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Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.
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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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Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
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Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.