Mahatma Gandhi
Quotes
Known for his leadership in the Indian independence movement, he championed nonviolent resistance as a powerful tool for social and political change. His philosophy of Satyagraha, or passive resistance, emphasized truth and nonviolence as foundational principles. His efforts and moral integrity inspired many around the world and led to India's eventual independence from British rule in 1947. His legacy extends beyond politics into the realms of civil rights and social justice, with his methods influencing global movements for equality and freedom.
Mahatma Gandhi
Quotes
Known for his leadership in the Indian independence movement, he championed nonviolent resistance as a powerful tool for social and political change. His philosophy of Satyagraha, or passive resistance, emphasized truth and nonviolence as foundational principles. His efforts and moral integrity inspired many around the world and led to India's eventual independence from British rule in 1947. His legacy extends beyond politics into the realms of civil rights and social justice, with his methods influencing global movements for equality and freedom.
Literary education must follow the education of the hand - the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
Where love is, there God is also.
I shall die, but I will not kill.
Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
Faith alone is the sun of life.
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
Cowards can never be moral.
Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.
The best politics is right action.
Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates.
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
Faith is the function of the heart.
My Swaraj will not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
