QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-7

1. The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
2. "Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being."
3. There is no god higher than truth.
4. "Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."
5. Patience means self-suffering.
6. There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint."
7. "To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."
8. "Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."
9. The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
10. They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
11. Those who know how to think need no teachers.
12. "You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."
13. I think it would be a good idea.
14. "A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."
15. "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."
16. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
17. Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
18. "A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."
19. "Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."
20. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
21. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
22. "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
23. Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
24. It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
25. Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-6

1. The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
2. Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. . . . It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
3. Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
4. No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
5. To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may -- this is the. . . gift of leadership.
6. The good man is the friend of all living things.
7. "Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value."
8. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
9. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
10. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
11. The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God."
12. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
13. The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.
14. "Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."
15. "I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."

QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-5

1. Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
2. "In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
3. "Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared."
4. "Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."
5. "Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint."
6. My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind."
7. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
8. Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
9. "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
10. "Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him."
11. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
12. There is sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
13. "If you don't ask, you don't get."
14. "In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
15. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-4

1. I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."
2. Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
3. I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
4. We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
5. Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
6. I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
7. "The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within."
8. Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
9. "A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."
10. "In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force."
11. If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today."
12. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
13. "Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
14. All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
15. "There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-3

1. The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."
2. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
3. "A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve."
4. "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
5. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
6. As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves."
7. "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
8. "Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood."
9. Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
10. "A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."
11. God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
12. Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
13. Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
14. The 7 Deadly Sins are: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Business without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principle
15. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-2

1. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
2. Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
3. "Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."
4. Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
5. Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.
6. I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
7. Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
8. "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."
9. "I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them."
10. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
11. The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
12. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
13. "I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease."
14. "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."
15. "I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."

QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-1

1. I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
2. 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.
3. It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
4. A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
5. What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
6. I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment."
7. "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."
8. Truth never damages a cause that is just.
9. All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
10. An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
11. Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
12. "Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God."
13. Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
14. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
15. It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.