Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised-the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
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Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.
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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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Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
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He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.
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To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
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My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
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A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
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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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The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
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Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
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Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
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Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
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A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
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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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Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.
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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.
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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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If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.