Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.
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If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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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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As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
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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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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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Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.
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It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
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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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Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.
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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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God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.
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Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.
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History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.
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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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The future of India lies in its villages.
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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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Non-cooperation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.
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Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.
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I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
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Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
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That which is inherent in man is his virtue.