Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.
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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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The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.
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I do not wish disaster to British arms.
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Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
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To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
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I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.
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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.
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Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?
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Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
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All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
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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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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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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
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The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
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Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
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Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
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The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.
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I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.
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My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.
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When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.
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The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
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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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Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.