Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
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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 have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
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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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Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
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No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.
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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
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A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
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Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.
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Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
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The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.
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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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Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.
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Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
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Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
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It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
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Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
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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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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.