Mahatma Gandhi Be Quotations

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend

I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.