Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
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We must be the world we want to create.
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Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.
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Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.
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A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.
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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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To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
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The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
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Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
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If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.
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My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
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The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed.
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It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.
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The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
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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.
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Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
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Non-cooperation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.
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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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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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Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
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I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.
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If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.
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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.