Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.
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If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
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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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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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When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
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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 votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
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Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.
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Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
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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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The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
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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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Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
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Truth is one, paths are many.
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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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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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A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.
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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
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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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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
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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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Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.