Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
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Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.
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If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.
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Hinduism is not a codified religion.
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It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good.
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Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.
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So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
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We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
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I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.
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Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
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The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
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I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.
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Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.
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I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.
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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
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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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I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.
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Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.
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In the midst of death life persists.