Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

Our nonviolence vis-?-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.

A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.