Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.
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No agreement between the British and Muslims can affect me. An agreement between Hindus and Muslims alone will affect me.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.
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Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.
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They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.
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It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
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One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.
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I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.
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The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?
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Love has more force than a besieging army.
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We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
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With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.
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Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
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The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.
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God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings.
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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.
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For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
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A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
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If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.
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I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.
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Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.