Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Love has more force than a besieging army.
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There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.
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Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.
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We don't use guns because we don't have guns.
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Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
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That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
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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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Man does not live by destruction.
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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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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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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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Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
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I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
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[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.
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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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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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The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
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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 highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.
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To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.
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God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.
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The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.
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Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.