Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
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I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
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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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If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.
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The primary object of non-cooperation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
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Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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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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My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
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I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
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Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
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A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.
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The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.
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I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.
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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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I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
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A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.
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The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.
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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
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There are as many different religions as there are individuals.
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.