Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.
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It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
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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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Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.
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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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Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.
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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.
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Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.
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Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.
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A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
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Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
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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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Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
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The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.
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When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
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A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
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My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.
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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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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
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We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
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The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.