Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
-
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.
-
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
-
It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.
-
Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.
-
There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
-
That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.
-
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
-
Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
-
I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
-
There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.
-
A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.
-
To see farther, you must climb higher.
-
When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
-
At times, non-cooperation becomes as much a duty as cooperation.
-
What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
-
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
-
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
-
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
-
The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
-
The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.
-
Before Hindus and Moslems dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.
-
Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
-
The sum total of karma is God.
-
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.