Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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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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People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of 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.
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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
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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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Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.
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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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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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Both heaven and hell are within us.
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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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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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I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.
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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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Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
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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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The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.
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Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.
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Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.
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Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.
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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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Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.