Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If one has affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors,… — 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