Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
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Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.
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Action expresses priorities.
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Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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For the poor, the economic is spiritual.
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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
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None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
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Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
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Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.
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Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.
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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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As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.
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Both heaven and hell are within us.
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.