Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
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A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.
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The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.
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Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.
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Non-cooperation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
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What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
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The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
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Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
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It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.
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If you do nothing there will be no results.
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If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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We must be the world we want to create.
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Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
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Character alone will have real effect on the masses.
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Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.
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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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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
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And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.
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Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.
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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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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.