Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
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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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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
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True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.
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I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
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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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Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
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Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
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It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
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I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
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It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.
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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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Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.
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There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.
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The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
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No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.