Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.
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No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.
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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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To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
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The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.
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We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.
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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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Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
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It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.
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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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Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.
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Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
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Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
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There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
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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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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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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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We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.
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Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
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Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
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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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The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.