Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
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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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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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A man of truth must also be a man of care.
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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
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I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.
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Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
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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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We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.
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I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
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Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.
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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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Action expresses priorities.
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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."
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The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
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It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
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Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.