Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.
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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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At times, non-cooperation becomes as much a duty as cooperation.
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What we can do, we will try to do.
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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
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True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
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Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
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Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'
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Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
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Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
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You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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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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Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.
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The weak can never forgive.
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Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.
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To give one's heart is to give all.
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Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.
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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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If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.
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I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
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The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.