Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
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We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
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We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
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The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.
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Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
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I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
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Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
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Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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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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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
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The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
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If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
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Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.
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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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A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.