Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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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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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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The avowed policy of non-cooperation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.
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The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.
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If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
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What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?
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To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
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The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.
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There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
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Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.
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Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
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God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
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My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.
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I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
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Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
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No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose.
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Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.
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I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.