Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
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The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.
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Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
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Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
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If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
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Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.
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I cannot be subservient anywhere.
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Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
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Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.
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Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
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The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.
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Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.
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Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
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Temple going is for the purification of the soul.
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I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.
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Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
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I have no weapon but nonviolence.
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The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
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My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.
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What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.
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If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.