Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
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We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.
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Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.
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Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.
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The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.
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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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The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
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In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
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I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.
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For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
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A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
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One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point.
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It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.
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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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People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
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What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
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I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.
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Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.
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Eye for eye and the world will go blind.
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My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
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With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?