Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
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The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.
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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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If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.
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If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
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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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Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
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Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.
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Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.
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A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.
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A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.
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I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts.
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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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Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
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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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Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
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It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.
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My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
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History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
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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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That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.
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We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
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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.