Mahatma Gandhi

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

Mahatma Gandhi

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

Mahatma Gandhi

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

Mahatma Gandhi

A devotee of truth may not do anything in deference to convention. He must always hold himself open to correction, and whenever he discovers himself to be wrong he must confess it at all costs and atone for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

Mahatma Gandhi

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

Mahatma Gandhi

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

Mahatma Gandhi