Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
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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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India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.
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Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.
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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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It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
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Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
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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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Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
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None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
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I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.
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It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
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Where there is fear there is no religion.
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He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.
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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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Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.
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Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.
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If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
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A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
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There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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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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We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.