Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
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Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
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My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
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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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I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
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Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.
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Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.
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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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God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.
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Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
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By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.
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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
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A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
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I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.
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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
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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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Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
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Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.