Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.
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It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.
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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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Morality is contraband in war.
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If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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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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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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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
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Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.
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Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.
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Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.
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Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.
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Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
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Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.
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A man of truth must also be a man of care.
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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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The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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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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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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The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.