Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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.
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One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
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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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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.
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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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If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.
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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
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If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.
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Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.
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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
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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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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
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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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The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.
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Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.
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My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
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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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Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.
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A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
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Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.
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The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
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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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Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.