Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
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As the means, so the end.
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For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
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True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
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Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
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My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
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My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
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The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.
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We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.
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Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
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Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
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All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
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People cannot hurt you without your permission.
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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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Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
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I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
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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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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.
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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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Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.
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The true battlefield is within.
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I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.
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Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.