Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.
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Priorities lie in your actions.
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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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The future depends on what we do in the present.
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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.
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A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.
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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.
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If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.
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A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
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Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.
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Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
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The power we call God defies description.
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Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
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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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Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
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Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
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Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
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This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
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No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.
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One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.
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Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.