Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
-
No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
-
Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.
-
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.
-
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
-
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
-
A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.
-
No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
-
Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
-
A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.
-
As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.
-
India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
-
Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
-
The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
-
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
-
Truth is what the voice within tells you.
-
When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
-
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.
-
My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
-
[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
-
We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.
-
We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
-
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
-
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.
-
Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.