“I have not the power adequately to describe them without committing a breach of the laws of decent speech.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible — 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
Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
