Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.
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Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
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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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Idleness is the great plague of India.
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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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National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.
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The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.
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Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
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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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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
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The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
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A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
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Your life is your message.
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In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.
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A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
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Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
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Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
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Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
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The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
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I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.