Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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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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If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
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I have regarded Jesus of Nazareth as one amongst the mighty teachers that the world has had. . . . I shall say to the Hindus that your lives will be incomplete unless you reverently study the teachings of Jesus.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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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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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
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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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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
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I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.