Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain… — 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
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value. — 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
Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of… — 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
