Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
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India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
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Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness.
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There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.
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In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
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Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?
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Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.
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Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.
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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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Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
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Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
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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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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
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I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.
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To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.
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You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
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Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.
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The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.
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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.