Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.
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The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.
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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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How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
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It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
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The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
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Untouchability is a terrible reality.
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To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
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The true battlefield is within.
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If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.
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I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.
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Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.
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Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
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Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.
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I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
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I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
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The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
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Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.
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What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.
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The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.