Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.
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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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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 have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.
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When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
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A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.
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The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
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It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.
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Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.
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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
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The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.
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There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
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External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.
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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.
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Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.
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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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Well, India is a country of nonsense.
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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.