Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life. — 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
Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures. — 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
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
Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident. — 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