Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the… — 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
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. — 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
