Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
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Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
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To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
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Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.
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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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Let your life be your message.
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
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It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.
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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
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If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.
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With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.
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If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.
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My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
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Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.
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Idleness is the great plague of India.
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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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To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
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Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
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The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.
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India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
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A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.
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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.