Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.
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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.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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Selfless action is a source of strength.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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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.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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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.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.
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No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.
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The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
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If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
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Love never claims, it ever gives.