Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I do not wish disaster to British arms.
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The sum of all that lives is God.
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I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
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The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.
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The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.
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Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
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Buddhism in one long prayer.
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Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
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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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The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.
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He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.
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To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
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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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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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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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That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.
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...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
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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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Concentrate on your task.
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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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This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
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Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.