Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The path is the goal.
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... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.
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The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
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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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I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.
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Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
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May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
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Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.
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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.
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It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.
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It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.
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Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.
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Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
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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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Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.
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He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.
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As the means, so the end.
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God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
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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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Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?
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Real non-cooperation is non-cooperation with evil and not with the evil-doer.
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How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
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In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.