Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.
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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
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I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.
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Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
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Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.
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We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
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No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.
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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
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If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.
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My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
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A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
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The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.
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A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
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Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.
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Idleness is the great plague of India.
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You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
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I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
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Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.