Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.
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History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
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There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
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The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.
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The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
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The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.
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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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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.
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It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.
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There are as many different religions as there are individuals.
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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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Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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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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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
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Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
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We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
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"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.
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I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.
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My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.