Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
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There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
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I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
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Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
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My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
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In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.
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For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
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I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher.
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The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
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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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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.
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The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.
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The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.
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When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.
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If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.
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I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
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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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The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
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Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.
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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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The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.