Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
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If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.
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Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.
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There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
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There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.
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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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My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
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Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.
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We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.
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Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.
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It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint.
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How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
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Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
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There are as many different religions as there are individuals.
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Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
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There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.
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Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.
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I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.