Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.
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A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.
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The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.
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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
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I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.
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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
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Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.
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We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
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My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
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Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
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Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.
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Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.
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All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.
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Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.
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Waiting on God means increasing purity.
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Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
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Without action, you aren't going anywhere.
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My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.
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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
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To know music is to transfer it to life.
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Events that have happened during the past month have confirmed me in the opinion that the Imperial Government have acted in the Khilafat matter in an unscrupulous, immoral and unjust manner and have been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend their immorality. I can retain neither respect nor affection for such a Government. The attitude of the Imperial and Your Excellency's Governments on the Punjab question has given me additional cause for grave dissatisfaction.
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You can't hurt me without my permission.