“We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.”
Source: India of My Dreams
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Source: The Message of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.”
Source: Collected Works
“The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.”
Source: My Picture of Free India
“If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.”
“It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.”
Source: India of My Dreams
Source: Hind Swaraj
“If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
Source: India of My Dreams
“If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?”
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
Source: Collected Works
Source: Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.”
Source: Communal Unity
“You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
Source: Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives
Source: Collected Works
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
Source: Collected Works
“If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.”
Source: Collected Works
“I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.”
“I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.”
Source: Collected Works: (1917:0ct.-1918:Jul.)
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.”
Source: Collected Works: (1918:Aug.-1919:Jul.)
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Collected Works
“To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Collected Works
“If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi