Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.
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Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
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If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.
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The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.
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Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.
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What we can do, we will try to do.
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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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Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
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I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.
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Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
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Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.
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The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.
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The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.
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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
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Life is greater than all art.
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... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.
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I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
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Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.
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Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.
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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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Patience means self-suffering.
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True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.