Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
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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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You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.
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Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.
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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 like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.
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My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.
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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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Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
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Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.
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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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The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.
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The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
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A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.
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Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
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In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.
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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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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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Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
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Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.