Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.
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No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.
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There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
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Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
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I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.
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By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
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What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
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I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.
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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
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Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
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We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.
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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.
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No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.
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Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
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Our peaceful non – co – operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.
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What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.
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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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It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
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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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There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
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Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.