Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
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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 fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
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I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.
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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
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Religion taught us to return good for evil.
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I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.
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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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Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
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Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
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Fear gone, there can be no hatred.
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The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.
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If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.
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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.
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And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.
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My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
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One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.
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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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The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.
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A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority.
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Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.
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Freedom and slavery are mental states.
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.
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The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.