Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.
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Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.
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Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
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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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My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
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My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.
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If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
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We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.
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Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.
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Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
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Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.
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A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.
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For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.
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Non-cooperation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.
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There is no road towards peace; peace is the road.
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Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
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What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.
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All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.
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Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
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Man does not live by destruction.
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If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.
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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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In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.