Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.
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Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
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There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.
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A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
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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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There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.
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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
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As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.
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In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
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A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.
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By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
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A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.
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If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.
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Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
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Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness.
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The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
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Violence always thrived on counter violence.
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Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.
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Literacy in itself is no education.
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Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.