The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion. Mahatma Gandhi More Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi More Quotes From Mahatma Gandhi You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere. Mahatma Gandhi ifs knows action It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained. Mahatma Gandhi insperational independent inspirational Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government. Mahatma Gandhi college education school Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray. Mahatma Gandhi truth-is understanding world I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her. Mahatma Gandhi wife hands thinking What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters. Mahatma Gandhi ends letters character Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation. Mahatma Gandhi revolutionary defense self It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. Mahatma Gandhi unwise wisest humility If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern! Mahatma Gandhi secular-society communication spiritual The good man is the friend of all living things. Mahatma Gandhi nature inspirational life No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose Mahatma Gandhi twists purpose people Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi comeback important decision Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence. Mahatma Gandhi active excellence jesus A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable. Mahatma Gandhi untouchability untouchables men Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Mahatma Gandhi greatest-fear power love I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Mahatma Gandhi punishment order believe To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within. Mahatma Gandhi growing growth seems In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. Mahatma Gandhi freedom truth law Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith. Mahatma Gandhi yoga faith blood What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. Mahatma Gandhi nature reflection peace
