Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
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No society can possibly be built upon a denial of individual freedom.It is contrary to the very nature of man. Just as a man will not grow horns or a tail, so will he not exist as man if he has no mind of his own. In reality even those who do not believe in the liberty of the individual believe in their own.
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If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.
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Nations are born out of travail and suffering.
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True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
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The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
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Your action expresses your priorities.
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Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
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Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.
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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
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Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
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Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.
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Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.
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Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
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The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.
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To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
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The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.
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Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.
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If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity.
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The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.