Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
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Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.
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Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.
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Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
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I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
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For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.
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A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.
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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
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The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.
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Man believes and lives.
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No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.
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Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.
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I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.
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Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
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The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.
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My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
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No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
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Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
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The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
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The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.
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You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.
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War knows no law except that of might.
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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.