Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
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God is Truth, Truth is God.
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If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.
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It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.
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That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
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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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Belief in non–violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.
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I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.
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In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
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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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India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.
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Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.
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I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.
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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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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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The sum of all that lives is God.
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Meditation is waiting on God.
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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
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I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
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Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.
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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.
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Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.