Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.
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An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.
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Non-cooperation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
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Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
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Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.
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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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Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.
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Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
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The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
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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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Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
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I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.
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Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.
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The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
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Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.
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All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
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There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.
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We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.
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Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.
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I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.
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Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
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Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
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No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.