Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.
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For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.
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The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
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Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
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I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
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I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.
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Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
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One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.
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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
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Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.
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Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.
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Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.
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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
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He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.
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Be the change you seek.
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Whatever I do is out of love.
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To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
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A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.