Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
-
A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
-
Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
-
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.
-
God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.
-
All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
-
The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
-
When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
-
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
-
Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
-
There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.
-
Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.
-
What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
-
Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
-
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.
-
True beauty consists of purity of heart.
-
A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
-
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
-
Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.
-
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
-
Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.
-
Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
-
I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
-
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
-
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.