Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
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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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Both heaven and hell are within us.
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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
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As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.
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Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
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Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
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Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
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We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
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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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Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.