Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes

• “Nor, do I believe in inequalities between human beings. We are all absolutely equal. But equality is of the souls and no...”
• “Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere. I do not know what to tell y...”
• “He was the natural knight errant, fighting always the battle of the weak against suffering and what he judged injustice....”
• “Walking gives movement to every portion of the body, and ensures vigorous circulation of the blood; for, when we walk fa...”
• “If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin wit...”
• “[They] would not oppose Gandhiji even when they were not fully convinced, ...were generally content to follow Gandhiji's...”
• “Unfortunately, Christianity in India has been inextricably mixed up for the last one hundred years with the British rule...”
• “Under the Gandhi Raj there is no Free Speech, no open meeting except for Non-Co-operators Social and religious boycott, ...”
• “Only the other day, a missionary descended on a famine area with money in his pocket, distributed it among the famine-st...”
• “Mahatma Gandhi is the greatest living exponent of successful pacifism. He has demonstrated that pacifism in action can b...”
• “Gandhi was the last political leader in the world who was a person, not a mask or a radio voice or an institution. The l...”
• “Gandhi was a completely unofficial man. He recognized the gulf that lay between the enjoyment of freedom and the exercis...”
• “Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passe...”
• “Man alone is perfectly healthy whose body is well formed, whose teeth as well as eyes and ears are in good condition, wh...”
• “It is extremely difficult for me to have to differ from Mahatma Gandhi in regard to any matter of principle or method. ....”
• “That is why a thinker like Thoreau said that 'that government is the best which governs the least.' This means that when...”
• “A universal language for India should be Hindi, with the option of writing in Persian or Nagari characters. In order tha...”
• “Hinduism in its most perverted forms was preached and practised by Gandhi. He tried to obliterate the distinction betwee...”
• “Man's excellence lies in his readiness to let others live and lay down his own life. As he progresses, his food also cha...”
• “The earliest evidence for quotes of this type comes from the "Love Project", an initiative begun at 1970 at a high schoo...”
• “He who lived by non-violence appeared to be defeated by violence. For a brief moment the light seemed to have gone out. ...”
• “Reputed historians and other eminent academicians have not undertaken so far any honest study of Gandhi's character. Jus...”
• “I say without fear of my figures being successfully challenged that India today is more illiterate than it was before a ...”
• “This Jonah of revolution, this general of unbroken disasters was the mascot of the bourgeoisie in each wave of the devel...”
• “As far as possible, possess your souls in patience, and do not trouble the doctors. In case you are forced at length to ...”
• “In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian do...”
• “I believe that independent India can only discharge her duty towards a groaning world by adopting a simple but ennobled ...”
• “I came to the conclusion long ago ... that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst ...”
• “There is nothing in the Koran to warrant the use of force for conversion. The holy book says in the clearest language po...”
• “It seemed a miracle that I would meet, and have the blessing to know and work with, one of the two saints of the phenome...”
• “It is my firm conviction that if the State suppressed capitalism by violence, it will be caught in the coils of violence...”
• “Holding the view I do, it is superfluous for me now to answer your argument that "this war has split the world into two ...”
• “I do not believe as the friend seems to do that an individual may gain spiritually and those who surround him suffer. I ...”
• “If we cultivate the habit of keeping the air pure and of breathing only fresh air, we can save ourselves from many a ter...”
• “It is difficult to see how Gandhi's methods could be applied in a country where opponents of the regime disappear in the...”
• “I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good b...”
• “May God give power to every word of mine. In his name I began to write this, and in His name I close it. May your states...”
• “Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the m...”
• “The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and that it will require centuries before we become one na...”
• “The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to...”
• “The episodes I have quoted will suffice to show on the personal side what reason I had to value his friendship, and I ca...”
• “As Milton says, the mind can make a hell of heaven or a heaven of hell. So heaven is not somewhere above the clouds, and...”
• “It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewher...”
• “It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious middle temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type ...”
• “I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inhere...”
• “If by abundance you mean everyone having plenty to eat and drink and to clothe himself with, enough to keep his mind tra...”
• “An experienced doctor by name Deway has written an excellent book on Fasting, in which he has shown the benefits of disp...”
• “1982: "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" in the 1982 film, Gandhi. In a 1993 biographical art...”
• “Gandhi (1935) in response to a call by Dr. Ambedkar for mass conversions among the depressed classes. Quoted from Sri Au...”
• “This [Christian] proselytization will mean no peace in the world. Conversions are harmful to India. If I had power and c...”