Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
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My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
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To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
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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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The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.
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I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.
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Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
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Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
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The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
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Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.
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True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
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It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.
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If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.
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The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.
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I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
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Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.
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The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed.
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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.
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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
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In the midst of death life persists.
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Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
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To see farther, you must climb higher.
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My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.