Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
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Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.
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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
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To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.
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Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
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Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
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The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.
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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
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If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
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Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
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Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.
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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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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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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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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.
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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
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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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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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History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
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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 one, paths are many.
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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.