Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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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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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
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Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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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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It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
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No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.
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Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
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For the poor, the economic is spiritual.
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
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Everyone holds a piece of the truth.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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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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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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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.