Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
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Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.
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But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
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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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One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.
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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.
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True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
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Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?
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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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A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.
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I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
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Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
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You can't shake hands with a closed fist.
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The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.
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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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My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
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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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Make injustice visible.
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An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer.
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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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There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.