Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.
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My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
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The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-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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Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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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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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
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Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.
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Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.
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The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
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There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.
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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
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What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.
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Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
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One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
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God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.
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Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?
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It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
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A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.
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The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.
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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
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Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
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By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.