Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
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Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
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Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
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I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.
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The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.
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Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.
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Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
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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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I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
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A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
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There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.
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Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.
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Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.
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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
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Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
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Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.
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Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
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God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?
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Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.
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The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
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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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The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.