Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I shall die, but I will not kill.
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The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.
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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
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Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
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Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.
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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!
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The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
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All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.
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Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.
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Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.
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The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.
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The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.
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When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.
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Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.
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The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.
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If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
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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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If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.
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God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
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Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
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A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.
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Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.
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Hate the sin, love the sinner.
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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.