Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
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If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
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Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
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Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
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Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.
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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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A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.
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The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
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Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.
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A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
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A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.
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Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.
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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
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A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.
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Idleness is the great plague of India.
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Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.
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God never occurs to you in person but always in action.
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You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.
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The true battlefield is within.
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In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
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Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
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There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.