Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization. — 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
