Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
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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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He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.
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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.
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Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
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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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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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Let your life be your message.
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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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A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.
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The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
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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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The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.
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Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
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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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The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
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Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
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Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.
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There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
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Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.