3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

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.