Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
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I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.
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Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.
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My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.
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God is Truth, Truth is God.
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My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.
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There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.
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Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
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Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.
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All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
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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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A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
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Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
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Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
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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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I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.
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Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
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A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority.
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Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.
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Nothing is of a permanent nature.
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One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.
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A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man.
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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.