Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.
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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'
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One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.
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My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.
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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.
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I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.
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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
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God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.
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That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.
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If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.
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There is no path to peace; peace is the path.
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A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.
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India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.
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Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.
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There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
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Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.
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There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.
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Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.
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I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.
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Adversity is the mother of progress.
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I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.
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God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.
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Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?