Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
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Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
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Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
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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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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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I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher.
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Your life is your message.
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No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
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A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
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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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No action which is not voluntary can be called moral.
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Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
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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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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
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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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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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The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
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To know music is to transfer it to life.
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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
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I think it would be a good idea.
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My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.