Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
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What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?
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Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.
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Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.
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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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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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Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
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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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Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.
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The best politics is right action.
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The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.
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My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.
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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
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Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.
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Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.
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True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
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Where there is fear there is no religion.
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Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.
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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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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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True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
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I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.
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If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
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Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.