Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."
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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
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My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
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Democracy and violence can ill go together.
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I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.
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A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
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Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
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Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
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The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
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I have regarded Jesus of Nazareth as one amongst the mighty teachers that the world has had. . . . I shall say to the Hindus that your lives will be incomplete unless you reverently study the teachings of Jesus.
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All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.