Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
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Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
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The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.
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The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.
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My commitment is to truth not consistency.
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Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
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Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
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All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
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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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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
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Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.
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If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.
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God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.
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It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.
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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
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Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
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Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
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Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
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We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.
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Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
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Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.
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Non-cooperation is a nation's determination to improve.