Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
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The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.
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A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
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Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.
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It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.
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The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.
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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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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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Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.
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If love or non – violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
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Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.
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I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
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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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It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.
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I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
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Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
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So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
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Life is one indivisible whole.
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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.