Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To a pure heart all hearts are pure.
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If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.
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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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Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
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It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
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Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.
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The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.
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Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.
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There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
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I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.
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The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
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Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.
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Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.
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Both heaven and hell are within us.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj
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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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I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.
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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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3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.
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Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.
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True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.