Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
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You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.
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I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.
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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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India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
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The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.
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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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Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
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There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.
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The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
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Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
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Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
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Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.
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Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.
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Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.
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Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.
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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
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The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.
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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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The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed.
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Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.