Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Morality is contraband in war.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

To a man with an empty stomach food is god.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love.

If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy your watch, I shall have to pay for it; and if I want a gift, I shall have to plead for it; and, according to the means I employ, the watch is stolen property, my own property, or a donation. Thus we see three different results from three different means. Will you still say that the means do not matter?

While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils.