Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.
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Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
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Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
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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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The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.
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I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
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Patience means self-suffering.
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He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.
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We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
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I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.
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Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
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Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
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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.
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Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.
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Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
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I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.
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Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.
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People become what they expect themselves to become.
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My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
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Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
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If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.