Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
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Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.
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Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.
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Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
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When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
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Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.
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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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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
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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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I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.
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Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.
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True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
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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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I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.
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Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
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Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
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Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
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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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My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.