Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.
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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.
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Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
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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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A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
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Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.
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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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I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
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My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.
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There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
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People become what they expect themselves to become.
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Untouchability is a terrible reality.
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Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.
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If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
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Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.
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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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To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.
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You can only have lasting peace based on justice.
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All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.
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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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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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Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.