Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
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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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I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.
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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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The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.
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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
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Religion should be dearer than life itself.
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Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.
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No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
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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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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
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Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
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You can't hurt me without my permission.
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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
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You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals.
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It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.
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If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.
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Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.
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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
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If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
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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.