Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
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It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good.
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I have no weapon but nonviolence.
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If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.
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Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.
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To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
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The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.
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A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
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What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.
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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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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
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If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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My commitment is to truth not consistency.
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The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
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If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
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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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Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.
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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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I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.