War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal. — 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
The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force. — 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
