Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.
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An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.
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Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
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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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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist.
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The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.
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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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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
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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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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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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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Democracy and violence can ill go together.
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Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.