Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
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Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.
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Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
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Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
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The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.
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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
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I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.
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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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We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.
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A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.
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No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
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The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
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The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
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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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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.
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God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.
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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
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If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
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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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The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.