Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
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Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
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Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.
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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.
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The Law which governs all life is God.
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We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.
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If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
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It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.
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Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
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When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.
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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
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If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
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A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
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The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.
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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
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To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
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No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
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A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.
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Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.