3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.

What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.