Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
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You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.
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The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
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Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
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It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.
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Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
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Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
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To know music is to transfer it to life.
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If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
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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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In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.
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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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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
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The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.
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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
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It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.
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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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The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
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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.