Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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 answers prayer in His own way, not ours.
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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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Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
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That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
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The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence.
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Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
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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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Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.
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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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Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
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By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
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Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.
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We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
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Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.
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Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
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We must become the change we want to see.
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There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man.
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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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Be the change you're trying to create.
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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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Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.
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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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Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.