Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
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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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No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
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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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Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
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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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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
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No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.
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A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
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One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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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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Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.
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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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If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.
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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
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An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
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Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.
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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 has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.
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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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Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.