Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
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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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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.
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To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
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It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.
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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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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
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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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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.
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It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good.
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Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.
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I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
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"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
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High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.
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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
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Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.
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Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.
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The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
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My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.
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To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.