Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
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Events that have happened during the past month have confirmed me in the opinion that the Imperial Government have acted in the Khilafat matter in an unscrupulous, immoral and unjust manner and have been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend their immorality. I can retain neither respect nor affection for such a Government. The attitude of the Imperial and Your Excellency's Governments on the Punjab question has given me additional cause for grave dissatisfaction.
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A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
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The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and that it will reaquire centuries before we become one nation. This is without foundation. We were one nation before they came to India. One thought inspired us. Our mode of life was the same. It was because we were one nation that they were able to establish one kingdom.
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A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.
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By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
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What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
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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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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.
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There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.
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Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
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I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.
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Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.
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The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
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The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.
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Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.
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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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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.
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If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.