Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
-
The true battlefield is within.
-
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
-
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
-
My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.
-
It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good.
-
The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
-
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
-
Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
-
It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
-
Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
-
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.
-
To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.
-
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
-
No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
-
There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
-
Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
-
Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.
-
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
-
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
-
To know music is to transfer it to life.
-
Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.
-
The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
-
God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
-
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.