Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.
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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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What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.
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The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
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I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
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I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.
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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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Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
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If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.
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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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Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
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It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.
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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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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
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Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
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For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
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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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Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
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We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
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The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
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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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The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.
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The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.