Gandhi Quotes

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

You don’t think we’re just going to walk out of India.[Brigadier]Yes. In the end, you will walk out. Because 100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate.[Mahatma Gandhi]

Without a paper, a journal of some kind, you cannot unite a community.

Where there’s injustice, I always believed in fighting. The question is, do you fight to change things or do you fight to punish? For myself, I’ve found we’re all such sinners, we should leave punishment to God. And if we really want to change things, there are better ways of doing it than derailing trains or slashing someone with a sword.

When you’re fighting in a just cause, people seem to pop up, like you, right out of the pavement.[to Charlie]

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Think of it. Always.

What you cannot do, is accept injustice from Hitler or anyone. You must make the injustice visible. Be prepared to die like a soldier to do so.

They will imprison us. They will fine us. They will seize our possessions. But they cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, not my obedience.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

There are no goodbyes for us, Charlie. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts. And that is where all our battles ought to be fought.