Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
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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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The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.
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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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I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.
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My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.
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Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.
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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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There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
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There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man.
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That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
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We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.
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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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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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A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.
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A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.
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Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
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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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We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
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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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My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.
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In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
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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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It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.