Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The sole aim of journalism should be service.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.
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God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.
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There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
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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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We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.
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Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.
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No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
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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 nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
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India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.
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But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.
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I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
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If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.
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Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
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The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.
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The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
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Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.
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Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.
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There is no road towards peace; peace is the road.
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The future depends on what we do in the present.
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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
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God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
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Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.