M.K Gandhi Quotes
This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.
An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.
Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.
The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.
A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.
If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.
It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.
Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.
No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.
I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.
With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.
Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.
What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?
Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?
Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
