Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
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There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.
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No action which is not voluntary can be called moral.
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For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.
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My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
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India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
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It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.
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Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.
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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
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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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The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
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My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
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Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
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'If I had power and could legislate, I should certainly stop all proselytizing. For Hindu households, the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family, coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink.'
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That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
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To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
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He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.