The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.
Mahatma GandhiIn the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
Mahatma GandhiThe cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.
Mahatma GandhiThe Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
Mahatma GandhiThis earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.
Mahatma GandhiI have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.
Mahatma Gandhi