Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
-
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
-
We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.
-
If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
-
A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.
-
National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.
-
Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.
-
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
-
Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
-
In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.
-
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
-
All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
-
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
-
The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
-
It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.
-
Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
-
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.
-
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
-
A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
-
If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
-
There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.
-
There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
-
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
-
Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.
-
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.