Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.
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A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.
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Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.
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Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
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It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.
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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
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India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.
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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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No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.
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There is no road towards peace; peace is the road.
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No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.
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This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.
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The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.
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If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.
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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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Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
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I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
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God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
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My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
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I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.
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Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.
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I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.