Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.
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Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
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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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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 million took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare.
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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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My conception of freedom is no narrow conception. It is co-extensive with the freedom of man in all his majesty.
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Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.
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If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.
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Our sages have taught us to learn one thing; `As in the Self, so in the Universe.' It is not possible to scan the universe as it is to scan the self. Know the self and you know the universe.
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Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
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The avowed policy of non-cooperation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
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Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.
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If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.
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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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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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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
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My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
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Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
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A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
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Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.