Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
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I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
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India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
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Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
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The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
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I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
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Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.
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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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Faith alone is the sun of life.
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Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.
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It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.
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Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
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It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.
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The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.
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Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.
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Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.
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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
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Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.
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The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.
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Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.