Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
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The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.
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I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.
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If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
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Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
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I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
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Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
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Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
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I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
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If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.
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The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
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To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.
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All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.
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Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
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I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
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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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It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.
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I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.