Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.
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Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.
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I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
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Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.
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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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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 Law and the Lawgiver are one.
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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
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I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.
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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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When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
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Where there is fear there is no religion.
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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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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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When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.
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Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
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It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
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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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What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.
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[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.
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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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India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.