Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What is faith if it is not translated into action?
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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
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Live simply that others might simply live.
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
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At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.
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There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.
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If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.
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Life is one indivisible whole.
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Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.
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There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.
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God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
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Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
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God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
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You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.
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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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Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
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Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
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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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Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.