Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
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My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.
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We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.
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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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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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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
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There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?
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Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.
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The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.
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It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
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God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.
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There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.
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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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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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Continue to grow and evolve.
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God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings.
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If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.
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I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
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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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And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.
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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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A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.
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Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.