Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
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My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.
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I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
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I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
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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 been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.
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My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
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The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.
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A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.
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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
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"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
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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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Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.
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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
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The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.
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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
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My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
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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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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
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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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It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.