Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
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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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It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.
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I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.
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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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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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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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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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Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
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God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?
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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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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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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
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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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The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
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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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Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.
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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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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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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
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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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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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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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The avowed policy of non-cooperation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.