Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
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If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
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A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.
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Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
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The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
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That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
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Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
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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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'If I had power and could legislate, I should certainly stop all proselytizing. For Hindu households, the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family, coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink.'
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Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.
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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
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The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.
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Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.
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Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.
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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
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Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
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A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.
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Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.
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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
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Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
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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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The Law which governs all life is God.
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We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.