Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect. — 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
The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings. — 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