Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
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Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
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Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
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I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
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Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
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I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
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Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.
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The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
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A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
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We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
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There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
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I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.
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So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
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"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
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If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.
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Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.
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The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.
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Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.
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If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.