Gandhi Quotes

The function of a civil resister is to provoke response. And we will continue to provoke until they respond or they change the law. They are not in control. We are. That is the strength of civil resistance.

Our Gita, the Muslim’s Koran, your Bible. It’s always the simple things that catch your breath.[to Charlie]

India is 700,000 villages, not a few hundred lawyers in Delhi and Bombay. Until we stand in the fields with the millions that toil each day under the hot sun, we will not represent India. Nor will we ever be able to challenge the British as one nation.

If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

If I want to be one with them, I have to live like them.

I want to change their minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all possess.

I too am prepared to die. But, my friend, there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I killed a child. I smashed his head against a wall.[Nahari]Why?[Mahatma Gandhi]They killed my son. My boy. The Muslims killed my son![Nahari]I know a way out of hell. Find a child, a child whose mother and father have been killed. A little boy about this high, and raise him as your own. Only be sure that he is a Muslim and that you raise him as one.[Mahatma Gandhi]

I am a Muslim, and a Hindu, and a Christian, and a Jew. And so are all of you.

Happiness does not come with things, even 20th-century things. It can come from work and pride in what you do.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.