Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
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The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.
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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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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
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No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
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Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
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Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.
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God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
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The Law which governs all life is God.
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My commitment is to truth not consistency.
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Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
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The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.
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Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.
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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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I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.
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A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.