Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.
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Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.
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The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
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All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
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Non-cooperation is a nation's determination to improve.
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Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
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A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
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Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
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The true battlefield is within.
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Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
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My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
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India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
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Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
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A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
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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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Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
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Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.
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Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.
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Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.
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If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.
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If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.
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A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.
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Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.
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What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.