Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.
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My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.
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Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.
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To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
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True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.
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A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.
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There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.
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Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
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The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.
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If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
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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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If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.
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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
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God is not in strength but in truth.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.
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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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Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.
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My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
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A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.