Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.
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God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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There's no God higher than truth.
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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.
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That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.
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Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.
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Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
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Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist.
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In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.
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An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.