Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.
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Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.
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The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
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For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
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Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
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I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
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My life is my message.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
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I have regarded Jesus of Nazareth as one amongst the mighty teachers that the world has had. . . . I shall say to the Hindus that your lives will be incomplete unless you reverently study the teachings of Jesus.
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Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
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A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
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An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.