Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.
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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
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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.
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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.
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We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
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My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.
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Life is one indivisible whole.
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No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
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Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
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Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.
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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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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
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It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.
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Live simply that others might simply live.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
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The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
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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.