Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.
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The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.
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The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.
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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.
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Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.
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The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
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The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.
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We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
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The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
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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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Untouchability is a terrible reality.
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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
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There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
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The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.
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My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
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A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
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Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
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I cannot be subservient anywhere.
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A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.
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My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
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Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.
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Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.
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If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.
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Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.