Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
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What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
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People cannot hurt you without your permission.
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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
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My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
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Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
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It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.
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A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
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If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.
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There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future.
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Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
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This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
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Belief in non–violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.
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The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.
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If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
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The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
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Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
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A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.