Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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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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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
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Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence but none to self-restraint, and let us daily progress in that direction.
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If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.
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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.
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Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.
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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.
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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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What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.
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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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Our sages have taught us to learn one thing; `As in the Self, so in the Universe.' It is not possible to scan the universe as it is to scan the self. Know the self and you know the universe.
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A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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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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If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
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I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.
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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 million took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare.
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Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.
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The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
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A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.
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The only thing lawful is non-violence. Violence can never be lawful in the sense meant here, i.e., not according to man-made laws, but according to the laws made by Nature for man.