Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Whatever I do is out of love.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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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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Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.
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I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
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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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The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
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My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.
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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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No society can possibly be built upon a denial of individual freedom.It is contrary to the very nature of man. Just as a man will not grow horns or a tail, so will he not exist as man if he has no mind of his own. In reality even those who do not believe in the liberty of the individual believe in their own.
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The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
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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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We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.
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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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As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.
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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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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
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A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.
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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.