Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To a pure heart all hearts are pure.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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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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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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If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.
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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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In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.
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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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The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.
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Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?
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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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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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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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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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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.
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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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Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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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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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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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.