Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
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To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.
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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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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
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The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.
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Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.
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If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.
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The soul of India lives in its villages.
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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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The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.
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No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.
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Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.
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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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There are as many different religions as there are individuals.
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I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.
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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 West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
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The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
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Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.
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A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.
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Sanitation is more important than Independence.
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Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.