Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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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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That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.
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Cowards can never be moral.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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Whatever the ultimate fate of my country, my love for you remains, and will remain, undiminished. My non-violence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. It is that love which has prompted my appeal to you.
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The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
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In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.
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Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.
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Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
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Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
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Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.
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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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Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
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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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Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
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I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.