Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.
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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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I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
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Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
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No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.
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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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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
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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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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 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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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.
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Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.
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Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
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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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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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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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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
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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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Morality is contraband in war.
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In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.