Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
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If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
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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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To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
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Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
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The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.
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We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
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God is not in strength but in truth.
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Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
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What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.
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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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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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The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.
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When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
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The only way love punishes in by suffering.
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The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
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I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
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There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.
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We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
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Non-cooperation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
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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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The true battlefield is within.
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That which impels man to do the right thing is God.