Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
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We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
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The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.
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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.
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Real non-cooperation is non-cooperation with evil and not with the evil-doer.
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Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.
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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?
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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
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It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
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Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
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Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
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To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.
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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
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You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
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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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To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
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How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
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I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
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We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.
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Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.
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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.