Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.
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I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
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I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
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Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.
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Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.
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Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
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There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
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Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
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How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
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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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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
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There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.
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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.
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Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?
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If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
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Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
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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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Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
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The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.