Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
-
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
-
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
-
God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.
-
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
-
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
-
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
-
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
-
A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
-
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
-
By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
-
We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.
-
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
-
The good man is the friend of all living things.
-
Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
-
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
-
All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
-
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
-
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
-
A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy… That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.
-
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
-
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
-
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
-
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.