Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.
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I know of no one who has done more for humanity than Jesus. In fact, there is nothing wrong with Christianity … The trouble is with you Christians. You do not begin to live up to your own teachings.
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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
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Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
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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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My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
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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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Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.
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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
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Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
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If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
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Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
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No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
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Whatever I do is out of love.
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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
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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.