Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
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A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
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My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.
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A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.
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Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.
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I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.
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Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.
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A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
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If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.
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Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.
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Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
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No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
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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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The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence.
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In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
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Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech.
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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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The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.
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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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Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
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There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.
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Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.
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Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.