Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
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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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Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
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If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.
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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
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In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.
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You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.
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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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If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity.
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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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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The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.
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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.
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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
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It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
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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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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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Happiness eludes us if we run after it.
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I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.
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My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.