Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
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If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
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There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.
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People become what they expect themselves to become.
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Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
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Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
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A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
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Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
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One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.
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God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.
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Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
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Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
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Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.
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Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.
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Life is one indivisible whole.
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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.
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Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.
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A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.
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Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.
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Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.
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A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.
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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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A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.