Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
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It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
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My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
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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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A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.
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Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
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When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.
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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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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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Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.
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Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
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I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
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Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
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See the good in people and help them.
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If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.
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Literacy in itself is no education.
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A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.
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Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.
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One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.
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There is no path to peace; peace is the path.
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Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.