Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.
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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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It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.
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"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.
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I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
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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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There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man.
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Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?
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Full effort is full victory.
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The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
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If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
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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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This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.
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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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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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Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
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I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.
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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.