Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
-
That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
-
Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.
-
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
-
I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest number. It means in its nakedness that in order to achieve the supposed good of 51 per cent the interests of 49 per cent may be, or rather, should be sacrificed. It is a heartless doctrine and has done harm to humanity.
-
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
-
Selfless action is a source of strength.
-
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
-
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
-
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
-
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
-
Where love is, there God is also.
-
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
-
I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
-
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
-
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
-
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
-
Love never claims, it ever gives.
-
I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
-
Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.
-
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
-
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
-
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
-
You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
-
It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.