Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
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Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
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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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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
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Purity of life is the highest and truest art.
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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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The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.
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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.
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Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.
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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
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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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Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
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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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If untouchability lives, humanity must die.
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point.
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Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.
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Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
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What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.
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Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.
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Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.
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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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For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.