Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
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Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.
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I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.
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Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.
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Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
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The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.
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My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
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No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.
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True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.
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Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.
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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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Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
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A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
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Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
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Events that have happened during the past month have confirmed me in the opinion that the Imperial Government have acted in the Khilafat matter in an unscrupulous, immoral and unjust manner and have been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend their immorality. I can retain neither respect nor affection for such a Government. The attitude of the Imperial and Your Excellency's Governments on the Punjab question has given me additional cause for grave dissatisfaction.
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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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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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Non-cooperation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.
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My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.
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There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
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When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.