Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.
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Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
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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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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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Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.
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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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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
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Be the change that you want to see.
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My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
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For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
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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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The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
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We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.
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It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.
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When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
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Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.
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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
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I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
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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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Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
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Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
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Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.