National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow. — 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
Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations. — 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