Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.
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If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.
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Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
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The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
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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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Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
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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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Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
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Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
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There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.
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My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
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Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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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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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.
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Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
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I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.
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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 real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
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In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.
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Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.