Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
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Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.
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Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.
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Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
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Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.
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I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.
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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
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Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.
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Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
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True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
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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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To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.
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To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
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Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.
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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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When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
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A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.
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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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A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.
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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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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
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My religion has no geographical limits.