Mahatma Gandhi Doe Quotations

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

It does not require money, to live neat, clean and dignified..

Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.

Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.

Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.

Man does not live by destruction.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

Whatever does not exist in the body can't be found in the universe, and whatever exists in the universe can be found in the body.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.