Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
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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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If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
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Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
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The end is inherent in the means.
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The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.
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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.
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I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.
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I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
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My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!
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The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.
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The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
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Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
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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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In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
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When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
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Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
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Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.
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The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.
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The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.