Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.
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Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
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Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
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Non-cooperation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
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The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.
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The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.
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I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.
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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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I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
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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.
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The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.
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Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
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To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
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We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.
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A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
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The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
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They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.
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Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
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Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
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The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
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Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
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An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.