Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
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The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.
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Literacy in itself is no education.
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Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.
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Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
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There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.
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If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.
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The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
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There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.
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You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.
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If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
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The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.
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Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.
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Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.
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For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.
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If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.
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Before Hindus and Moslems dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.
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A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.
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A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.
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Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?
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For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.
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The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.