Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
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Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
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Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.
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You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
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To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
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I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.
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If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
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True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.
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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).
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The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.
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What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
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Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
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Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
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Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
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The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.
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Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
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At times, non-cooperation becomes as much a duty as cooperation.
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Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating.
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God cannot be realized through intellect.
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The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.
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Patience means self-suffering.