Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.
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The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.
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A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
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I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
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The sole aim of journalism should be service.
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I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.
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I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.
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To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
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Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.
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To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
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It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.
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It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.
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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.
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Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.
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Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.
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Man believes and lives.
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Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.
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Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
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Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.
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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
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If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.
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What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.