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.