Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.
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If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.
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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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Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.
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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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To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
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If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
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My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
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I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.
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I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
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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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Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.
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Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.
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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.
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Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.
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In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?
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To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
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We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
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Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
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If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.