Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.
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I draw no distinction between error and sin. If a man commits a bona fide mistake and confesses it with a contrite heart before his Maker, the merciful Maker sterilizes it of all harm.
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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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Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
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All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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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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Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
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Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?
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The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.
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That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
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If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
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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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Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.