Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
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When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
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Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.
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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
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Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
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Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
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I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!
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A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.
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My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
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The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.
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Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
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Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
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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 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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It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?
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The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.
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Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.
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A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
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My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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What better book can there be than the book of humanity.