16 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi quotes on gandhi

122. Those who want to lead the people to satyagraha ought to be able to keep the people within the limited non-violence expected of them.

182. In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.

202. On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king. Gandhi replied simply, 'The King was wearing enough for the both of us.'

203. One can understand the necessity for registration of Kaffirs who will not work.

204. Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

205. Passive resistance is an all-sided sword; it can be used anyhow; it blesses him who uses it and him against whom it is used.

206. Post-dated cheque on a failing bank. - on Cripp's Cabinet Mission Plan to the Indian National Congress

207. Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

208. Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.

209. Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

210. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

211. That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence

212. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

260. Everyone concerned in the better future of mankind must be deeply moved by the tragic death of Mahatma Gandhi. He died as the victim of his own principles, the principle of nonviolence. He died because in time of disorder and general irritation in his country, he refused armed protection for himself. It was his unshakable belief that the use of force is an evil in itself, that therefore it must be avoided by those who are striving for supreme justice to his belief. With his belief in his heart and mind, he has led a great nation on to its liberation. He has demonstrated that a powerful human following can be assembled not only through the cunning game of the usual political manoeuvres and trickeries but through the cogent example of morally superior conduct of life.

263. I could find no explanation worthy of the Mahatma for his decision to accept leadership of the khilafat movement. The decision, it seemed to me, revealed the great man's proverbial Achilles' heel.

264. But, he was a bhakt not of Ram in his totality, that is of Ram the warrior also, but of Ram as Purushottam Purusha, that is, of Ram who set the ideal for ethical life.