Gandhi Quotes:

Gandhi Quotes:  from http://www.mkgandhi.org/epigrams/contents.htm

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian. TIG-68

If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, ‘O yes, I am a Christian.' T-2-29

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only son of God. XXV-85

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths – through Hinduism. BUNCH-110

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus. T-4-252

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.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented. XX-34

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
MM-179

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government. XX-131

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation’s outraged feelings.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering

Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used. T-4-141

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

If one does not practise nonviolence in one’s own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb glows out of nonviolence.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

Nonviolence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with ahimsa, reject as non-Hindu.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted the religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.