Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
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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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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
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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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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.
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No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.
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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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Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
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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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No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.
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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
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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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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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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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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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Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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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 and ahimsa will never be destroyed.
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Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.