Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
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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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To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
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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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It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.
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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
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Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
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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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Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.
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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Where there is fear there is no religion.
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You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
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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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In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.
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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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Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.
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Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.
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Whatever I do is out of love.
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If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
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In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.
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Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!
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The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.
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Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.