Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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We don't use guns because we don't have guns.
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Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
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In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.
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Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
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Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.
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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
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If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
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To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
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There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.
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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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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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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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To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
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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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To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.
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A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
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All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
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Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.
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Ahimsa is the strongest force known.
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Let us work together for unity and love.
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A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.