Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance… It… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
