Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
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Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.
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I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
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Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
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Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
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Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.
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Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
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Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.
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The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.
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The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.
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Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.
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History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
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I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.
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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
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If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.
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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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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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If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province.
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If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
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The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.
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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
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A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.
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India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.