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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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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In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.
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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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I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
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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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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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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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If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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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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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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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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Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.
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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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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
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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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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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I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
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I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
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The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.
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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
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I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
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It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.