3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

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.

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.