Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a convent with death and an agreement with hell.

The greatest enemy to man is man.

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles mine.

The issue [slavery] is clear, explicit, determinate. The parties understand each other, and are drawn in battle array. They can never be reconciled--never walk together--never consent to a truce--never deal in honeyed phrases--never worship at the same altar-never acknowledge the same God. Between them there is an impassable gulf. In manners, in morals, in philosophy, in religion, in ideas of justice, in notions of law, in theories of government, in valuations or men, they are totally dissimilar.

England is the natural enemy of France, an enemy greedy, ambitious, unjust, and false. The invariable and cherished object of her policy is, if not the destruction of France, at least her abasement, her humiliation, her ruin.

Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

As many servants so many enemies.

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.

Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?

Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.