Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.
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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
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It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.
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True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
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I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.
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I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.
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Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
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A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.
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Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
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The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
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The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.
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No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
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Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.
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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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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
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Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
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The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
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It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
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The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
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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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To know music is to transfer it to life.