Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
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All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.
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The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
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There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
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Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
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Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
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My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.
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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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For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.
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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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For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.
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Meditation is waiting on God.
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The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.
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If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.
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Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.
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There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.
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My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
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I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.
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No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
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To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
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When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.
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Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
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Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.