Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.
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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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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
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The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.
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Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
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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 truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
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All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.
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Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.
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In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
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The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
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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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Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
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The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.
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A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.
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Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.
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Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
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Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
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My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.
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Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
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Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.