Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
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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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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
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Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
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Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.
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Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.
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True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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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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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
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The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
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Make injustice visible.
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If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.
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Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
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Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.
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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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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
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Religion should be dearer than life itself.
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Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.
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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.