Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.
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No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.
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Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
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To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
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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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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
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Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.
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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
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Be the change that you want to see.
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Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.
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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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Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.
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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
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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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Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
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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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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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No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.
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Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.
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We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.