Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
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It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.
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I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher.
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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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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.
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Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.
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I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.
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People become what they expect themselves to become.
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In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
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A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.
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God never occurs to you in person but always in action.
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
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My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.
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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
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We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
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No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.
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Idleness is the great plague of India.