Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
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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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Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
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You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
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I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.
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In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
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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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My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
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Real non-cooperation is non-cooperation with evil and not with the evil-doer.
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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
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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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It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.
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God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
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If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.
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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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... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.