Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
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If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.
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God cannot be realized through intellect.
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If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.
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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.
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
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We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
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I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.
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For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.
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Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
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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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The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
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Whatever I do is out of love.
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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
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A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.
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A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
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I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.
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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
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The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
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Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.