Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.
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Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
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My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.
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Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
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God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.
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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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The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.
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Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.
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There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.
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Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
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By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
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The English peace is the peace of the grave.
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Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
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Take care of this moment.
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If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.
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In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
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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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My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.
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A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
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Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.
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The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
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Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
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Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.