Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.
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Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
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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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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
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I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.
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My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.
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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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I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.
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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
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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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A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
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The future of India lies in its villages.
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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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Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
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Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
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The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
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The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
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The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.
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We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
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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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God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings.
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Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.
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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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I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.