Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Poverty is the greatest violence.
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We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
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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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Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
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Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
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No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
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Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
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A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
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A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.
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A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.
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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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The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.
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There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.
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What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.
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The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.
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We must become the change we want to see.
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Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.
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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
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My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.
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Be the change you're trying to create.
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The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.
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Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
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There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.