Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.
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Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.
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Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.
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Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.
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To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
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The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.
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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?
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Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.
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I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
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The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.
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A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
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The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
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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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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
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Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.
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A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.
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The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
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I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
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Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.
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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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Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.
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Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.
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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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God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.