Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
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So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
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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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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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I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
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It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.
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It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
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The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
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Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.
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The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
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Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
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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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It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
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Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
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It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.
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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
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The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.
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As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.
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The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.
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There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.