Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
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Literacy in itself is no education.
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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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History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
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Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
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There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
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When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.
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Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.
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The sole aim of journalism should be service.
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.
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God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
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Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.
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My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
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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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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.
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God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.
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I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
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Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.
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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
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Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.
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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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Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.