Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.
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Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
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The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.
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Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?
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Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
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The only way love punishes in by suffering.
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India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.
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There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.
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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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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.
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We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.
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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
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In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
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We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
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Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
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Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
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But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.
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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
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I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
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It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
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The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.