Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.
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Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
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Love and exclusive possession can never go together.
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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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Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
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Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
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In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
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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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In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.
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One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.
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Hinduism is not a codified religion.
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Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.
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Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.
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Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.
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The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
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Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
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How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
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If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.
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We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.