Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
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God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
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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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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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A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.
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Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
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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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My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
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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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I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
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Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.
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Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.
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I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.
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Violence always thrived on counter violence.
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Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.
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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet.
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There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.
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... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.
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Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.
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Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
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Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?
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When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
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I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.
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I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.