Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
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Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.
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Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.
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The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.
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When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.
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A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
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Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
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God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.
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If untouchability lives, humanity must die.
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Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
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A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.
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I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.
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Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
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The power we call God defies description.
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A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
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Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
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If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.
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I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.
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Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
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It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?
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The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
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God has no religion.