Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
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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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I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
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Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
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Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.
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Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
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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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The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
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Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.
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Real non-cooperation is non-cooperation with evil and not with the evil-doer.
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A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
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Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
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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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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.
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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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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
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Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.
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A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
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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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When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.
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In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
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I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.