Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
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Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.
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Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
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Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
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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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How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
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I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.
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I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
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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.
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There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.
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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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A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
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It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.
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If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
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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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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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Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
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An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.
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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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The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.