Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
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Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
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My ambition is much higher than independence. Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the Earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.
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My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.