Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.
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Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
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I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.
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Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view.
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The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.
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The Law which governs all life is God.
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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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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
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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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As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.
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The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
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My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.
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When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.
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If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.
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The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
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Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.
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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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I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.
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Idleness is the great plague of India.
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Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.
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Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.
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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
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Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.