-
But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
Untouchability is an error of long standing.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint.
Mahatma Gandhi -
People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Where there is fear there is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Mahatma Gandhi