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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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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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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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
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Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.
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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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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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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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Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
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I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.
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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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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
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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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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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When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
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What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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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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Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
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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.